Lingua Scientia Journal
Vol. 30 No. 1 (2023)

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILLS IN WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH USING PEER-CORRECTION

Arielia Pachira Humarani (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa)
Nurhaedah Gailea (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa)
Eri Rahmawati (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jun 2023

Abstract

The research objective was to determine the improvement of students’ skills in writing a descriptive paragraph using peer-correction technique on seventh grade students at SMPN 10 Kota Serang. The quantitative research with pre-experimental method was employed in this research, and one-group pretest-posttest design was implemented. The subject of this research was 30 students of VII I class and it was chosen based on the simple random sampling technique. The result of the study shows that the mean posttest score (71.10) exceeded the mean pretest score (52.33). Furthermore, Ha is accepted. This indicates that through receiving treatment, students' writing descriptive text abilities improved. Moreover, the researcher calculated that the score of t obtained < t table (-119.751 < 2.045) and the sig. (2-tailed) < 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It can be concluded that the Peer-Correction has an improvement on the writing skills of seventh grade students at SMPN 10 Kota Serang. Keywords: descriptive text, peer-correction, writing Skills, technique, treatment

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JJBI

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Lingua Scientia is a journal committed to publishing studies in the area of foreign language teaching and learning and linguistics. It adopts diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives in exploring a wide range of current issues in foreign language teaching and linguistic studies. Subject ...