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This study was conducted in order to investigate the effectiveness of trait based assessment on teaching writing skill for EFL learners. Designed as pre-experimental study with one group pretest and posttest design, it examined 20 students of the second semester of English Department of Hamzanwadi University in the academic year 2016/ 2017 as the samples. Purposive sampling technique was used in determining the samples. Writing test and analytical scoring rubric were the instruments used to collect the data. Then the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and paired sample t-test to test the hypothesis. The result of descriptive statistics analysis revealed that trait based assessment is effective on teaching writing skill for EFL learners since the mean score of posttest 60 was higher than mean score of pretest 28.20. While for hypothesis testing by using paired sample t-test at significance (2-tailed) value level was .000, it was lower than .05. Therefore, it means tha…

The vast majority of EFL learners found reading and writing quite challenging learning activities to engage in. This has also been the case in my ESL class. As a result, many of them feel discouraged to read and to write. These barriers also led to poor achievement in these language skills. To deal with such an issue, EFL teachers need to design an enjoyable and meaningful reading and writing activities in their class. This article presents some ideas of how EFL teachers could integrate reading and writing activities regarding personal narrative

This research investigated the students’ writing skill on recount text at session at session 2016 A English Department of STKIP West Sumatera. Some of them had difficulties in organization, content, grammar, mechanic, and vocabulary. Then, they really need lecturers’ correction in every step of their writing process. Therefore, the researcher applied peer editing technique as the focus of research to solve this problem. The purposes were to find whether peer editing technique can improve students’ writing skill on Recount Text and some factors influence the improvement. The methodology of research is a classroom action research (CAR). Researcher used writing test and questionnaire as the instruments. The finding of the research showed that the students’ writing skill of recount text improves through Peer Editing technique and there are four factors influenced the improvement.

This research aims at finding the effectiveness of Toondoo Comic in teaching speaking at the second semester of Sendratasik Study Program of Hamzanwadi University in the academic year 2018-2019. This research was a pre experiment by using single group pre-test and post-test design. The population of the study was 47 students from A and B classes. The sample of the study was 17 students from class A. It was taken through purposive random sampling. A speaking test was used in collecting the data. The data collected were analyzed by using descriptive statistic, and paired sample t-test was used to test the hypothesis. It was performed using SPSS 22 for Windows. The result shows that the mean in the pre-test was 41.06 and was 60.71 in the post- test. Additionally, the hypothesis testing using paired sample t-test resulted significance (2-tailed) value level .000; it was lower than .05. This indicated that Toondoo comic was significantly effective in teaching speaking. Thus it is suggest…

The present research purposes were to find the factors of students’ writing anxiety and to know what the type of writing anxiety in writing encountered by the participants who followed writing for academic communication course of English education study program at Hamzanwadi University, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia. This study was categorized as descriptive quantitative method research. The researcher took 15 subjects who were chosen by using purposive sampling. The data collection methods were two closed-ended questionnaires, then second language writing anxiety inventor (SLWAI) designed by Cheng and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) proposed by Reraei and Jafari were applied to obtain the data. Observation and interviews were conducted to strengthen the result. The finding of research proved that the highest writing anxiety was avoidance behavior, which turned out the most predominant type among other types of writing anxiety which could be known from the highest mea…

This research explored the effectiveness of using collaborative writing strategy for writing ability of the students and it used quasi experimental for the method. This study emplyed two groups namely experimental group and the control group. Both classes received different treatment. For the experimental group, the students were taught by using collaborative strategy while the control were not. The population were 10th grade students of MA Al-Ibrohimy. The data collection technique used the covariance analysis (ANCOVA). Results indicated that the collaborative writing approach appears to be more effective than traditional method in teaching literacy. However, both the study and control groups demonstrated a statistically significant difference in writing skills when tested in post-test words. The test data were analyzed using covariance analysis (ANCOVA). Results indicated that the collaborative writing approach appears to be more effective than traditional method in teaching liter…