Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 12, No 1 (2023)

Movie, Writing, and Character Education: A Study on an EFL Writing Class

Dian Safitri (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Nur Rosita (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Rita Arni (Universitas Negeri Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 May 2023

Abstract

This paper is a one-shot case study which aims to reveal if the integration of anti-drug character education into foreign language writing classes by using short movie is effective to achieve both the learning and character education objectives. An online writing test and a four-Likert scale questionnaire with twenty close-ended questions were given to 32 English college students in West Sumatra. The data of students’ writing were analyzed quantitatively by using Wilcoxon Match Pair Test, while that of the questionnaire was analyzed by using Mann Whitney U Test. The analysis outputs show the success of the integration by the following results: (1) there is a significant improvement in word production number (Asymp. Sign (2-tailed)=0.000); (2) there is a significant improvement in writing score (Asymp. Sign (2-tailed)=0.000); and (3) the students’ understanding towards the moral values sent by the movie are excellent (M=3.92). The findings may have pedagogical implications in adding an effective media reference to improve students’ writing skill and to integrate character education into EFL learning.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...