Developing Writing Blended Approach to Increase Students’ Descriptive Writing Competency

Abstract

This quantitative research was to find out whether there was a statistically significant difference of students’ descriptive writing competency taught through Blended approach and the traditional one and to find out the effectiveness of the Blended approach in increasing students’ descriptive writing competency. The subjects were 29 students of the second grade of SMP 1 Purbolinggo, east Lampung. The instruments used were descriptive writing tests. The data were analysed by using Repeated Measure t-test. The result showed that there was a statically significant difference of students’ descriptive writing competency taught through Writing Blended approach and the traditional one with the significant level 0.05. This suggests that Blended Approach to Writing promotes the students to increase students’ descriptive writing competency. Keywords: [Blended Approach to writing, Effectiveness, Writing competency].