Dharmas Education Journal (DE_Journal)
Vol 6 No 2 (2025): DE_Journal

Effect of a Genre-Based Approach to Improve Students’ Writing Skill of SMKS Start Up Dara Jingga in Academic Year 2024-2025

Reni Marlina (Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Dharmas Indonesia)
Riyadi Saputra (Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Dharmas Indonesia)
Zumrrotun Lutfiah (Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Dharmas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Oct 2025

Abstract

The study was intended to find out the empirical evidence of the effect of using genre-based approach on students’ writing skill. The study used quantitative method with pre-experimental design. The study used purposive sampling with the research sample totally 25 students which classified into one class, experimental class. The population of this study was the ten-grade students of SMKS Star Up Dara Jingga Dharmasraya using the Pre-Experiment method and one Group Pre-test & post-test design. The results of the analysis show that the average student pre-test score was 43.20, while the average post-test score increased to 75.40 after implementing genre-based approach. Hypothesis testing using the Wilcoxon test showed a 2-tailed significance of 0.00, indicating a substantial difference in scores before and after treatment with genre-based approach. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of genre-based approach in teaching speaking has high results, meaning that genre-based approach can improve students' writing skills and have a positive effect on students' writing skills.

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de_journal

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Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Mathematics Public Health Other

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DE_JOURNAL (Dharmas Education Journal) merupakan jurnal ilmiah yang diterbitkan oleh Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Dharmas Indonesia, dan sebagai sarana publikasi hasil penelitian serta berbagi perkembangan ilmu tentang pendidikan. Jurnal ini memuat artikel yang belum pernah ...