Tamaddun
Vol 20 No 1 (2021): June 2021

The Use of Four-Square Technique to Improve Students’ Writing Ability

Yulianti Yunus (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Syarifuddin Dollah (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Munir Munir (Universitas Negeri Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Apr 2022

Abstract

This study employed a quasi-experimental approach that aimed to find out the extent of the improvement students' writing ability by using the Four-Square Technique on the descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. the authors took 53 samples, 28 students as the experimental group and 25 students as the control group. The study data was obtained by giving a pre-test and post-test and analyzed by using the Dependent Sample T- Test. The result of the data showed that students' writing ability improved. It was proved from score result of tobs (16,673) which was higher than t-table (2.052) and sig. P (0.05) was higher than sig.score (0.000). Students' writing ability improve by 0.1% after using the Four-Square Technique from pre-test mean score was 65.07 and the post-test mean score was 75.14. So, it can be concluded that using Four-Square Technique can improve students' writing ability in writing a descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. By using it, students showed that they can be motivated in writing, students more easily generate and organize their ideas into a text so that students’ writing was more organized also easy to understand.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

tamaddun-life

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Tamaddun is a multidisciplinary peer reviewed and open access journal in language, literature, and culture. The aim is to publish conceptual and research articles that explore the application of any language in teaching and the everyday experience of language in education. Its scope is international ...