Tefla Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistic Journal)
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2019)

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUTLINING IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING SKILL

Tenny Murtiningsih (Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 May 2019

Abstract

This is classroom action research. The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of outlining in improving students’ paragraph writing skill for English Department Students, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin. There are 6 students as the respondent of this research. The researcher took them as the respondent when they studied Writing 2 subject. The researcher got the data from the treatment in 2 cycles that were conducted in this research, the questionnaire that was distributed to the respondents above and also the observation during the cycles. The descriptive analysis in cycle 1 shows that the mean score is 71.3333, the minimum score is 63.00, the maximum score is 80.00 and the standard deviation is 5.85377. Meanwhile cycle 2 shows that the mean score is 76.6667, the minimum score is 70.00, the maximum score is 85.00 and the standard deviation is 5.16398. The research result explains that there is significant improvement in students’ paragraph writingskill by using outlining. The student’s paragraph writing skill is improved. Beside that the result of questionare and observation shows that outlining really works to improve students’ paragraph writing skill.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TEFLA

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

TEFLA is a high-quality open access peer-reviewed research journal that is published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin and managed by the English Language Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin. This is a biannual journal, ...