Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol 2, No 2 (2015)

Upgrading Students’ Writing Performance through Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach

Hafirah Patang (Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo)
Iski Sulastri (Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Aug 2015

Abstract

This is a pre-experimental research using one group pre-test and pos-test design, which aims at finding out the effects of Contextual Teaching and Learning approach in improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sabbang. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sabbang. The total number of the population is 149 of the all eleventh students. The researcher took 20 students as the sample from one class by using cluster sampling technique. This research employed writing test as the instrument of data collection. The result of this test is used to assess to what extent Contextual Teaching and Learning approach can improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. After several meetings, this research found out that the use of Contextual Teaching and Learning approach is significantly effective to improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. It is supported by looking at the mean score obtained by students through pre-test is 51.55 and post-test is 76.86.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ethicallingua

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ethical Lingua is an online academic journal published in February and August by Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo and managed by the English Language Education study program. The journal publish scholarly articles on the scope of Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Language Curriculum and ...