U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 7, No 4 (2018): U-JET

The Authentic Materials in Improving Students’ Writing Achievement

Meriyana Ekasari (Unknown)
Sudirman Sudirman (Unknown)
Gede Eka Putrawan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Sep 2018

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatan signifikan secara statistik di dalam pencapaian siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif dan  aspek  menulis apa  yang  paling  meningkat setelah siswa diajarkan menggunakan Authentic Materials. One group pretest posttest design digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 23 siswa kelas IX Smp Abdulrahman Ibnu Auf Bandar Lampung. Data penelitian dianalisis menggunakan Repeated Measure T-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan signifikan secara statistik pada nilai rata-rata pencapaian menulis siswa dengan level signifikansi 0.05 dan aspek menulis yang paling meningkat adalah aspek vocabulary diikuti dengan content, organization, mechanics, dan language use secara berurutan. Hal ini menandakan bahwa penggunaan authentic materials memberikan efek yang positif pada kemampuan menulis siswa. This research aimed to find out whether there is statistically significant improvement  of  the  students’  writing  achivement  and  what  aspect  of writing improved the most after the students were taught by using authentic materials. One group pretest posttest design was used in this research. The subjects were 23 nine grade students of Smp Abdulrahman Ibnu Auf Bandar Lampung. The data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure T-test analysis. The result showed that there was a statistically significant increase in the students’ mean score of writing achivement (12.67 1.72) with the significant level 0.05  and  vocabulary aspect  was highly improved followed by content, organization, mechacnics, and language use respectively. This indicates that using authentic materials give a positive effect on students’ writing achievement.Keywords: writing, descriptive text, authentic materials

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...