Indonesian Journal of Integrated English Language Teaching
Vol 2, No 2 (2016): June 2016

The Effect of Using What Is It? Technique on Students’ Writing Achievement and Their Motivation

Fatimah Mulyani (Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Jan 2017

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of using What is it? Technique on students’ writing achievement and their motivation on descriptive paragraphs at state Junior High School 1 Kampar.  This study was an experimental research which was intended to find out the effect of using What is it? Technique on the students’ writing achievement and their motivation.  The participants of the study comprised 57 students found in 2 classes randomized from seven classes.  Treatment by using What is it? Technique was given to an experimental class (n=29) but a control class (n=28) was not given treatment by using What is it? Technique. Data were collected using a writing test for writing achievement and a questionnaire for writing motivation.  The data were analyzed by using inferential statistics.  The findings showed that there was a significant effect of using What is it Technique on their achievement in writing descriptive paragraphs and there was a significant effect of using What is it? Technique on their motivation in writing descriptive paragraphs.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJIELT

Publisher

Subject

Religion Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Indonesian Journal of Integrated English Language Teaching (IJIELT) is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal focusing on theories, approaches, methods, systems, designs, applications, implementations, and evaluations of integrated curricula. IJIELT welcomes authors to publish research or non-research ...