Abstract
This quasi-experimental study aimed to discover the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of employing teachers' indirect feedback on students' writing skills of the descriptive text in one senior high school in Indonesia. The participants of the research are 52 students in total comprising 26 students from the science program class assigned as the experimental group, and 26 students from social program class as a control group. This research implemented teachers' indirect feedback in the experimental group for 6 meetings with the descriptive text topic based on the 2013 curriculum. On data collection, the descriptive writing test was employed, then, the data was analyzed by using SPSS version 25 software program. Based on the analysis of the data, it is yielded that there is a significant increase in the mean of post-test scores of the science class which is from 62.84 to 79.97. In addition, the post-test means score in the social class growth as well from 58.96 to 63.00. It is assumed that the implementation of teachers' indirect feedback is effective to improve students' skills in writing descriptive text.
Highlights
In the term of skills, writing is presumably the difficult one to achieve due to the requirement to make it fluent, coherent and extended (Richards & Rendaya, 2002)
With the complexity of writing, it is understandable for English Foreign Learners (EFL), especially those who are still in senior high schools in Indonesia have a difficult time in their writing practices (Jati, 2018)
The t-test is a crucial calculation of this study to find out the research problem about whether teachers’ indirect feedback affects students’ writing descriptive text
Summary
In the term of skills, writing is presumably the difficult one to achieve due to the requirement to make it fluent, coherent and extended (Richards & Rendaya, 2002). With the complexity of writing, it is understandable for English Foreign Learners (EFL), especially those who are still in senior high schools in Indonesia have a difficult time in their writing practices (Jati, 2018). In Indonesia, as the 2013 Curriculum in 2018 revision stated one of the skills that students should achieve is writing a descriptive text. It is a text which is composed to explain a particular thing, person, or place by specifying its characters, components or qualities In writing this text, the students are expected to write it accurately for explaining specific things in three or four paragraphs with the right language features and correct grammatical forms
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