Abstract
When learn from home becomes a new normal, teachers should switch the class to online. Meanwhile, mastering writing skill is still important in online class because the subjects will be able to express their ideas, feeling and experiences in the written form appropriately. The objective of this study was to find out whether or not writing skill of second semester students of English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University in Academic year 2019/2020 could be improved trough Think Pair Share with distance learning model. The study was designed in the form of classroom action research. Based on the result of the pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire, it could be concluded that writing skill of the second semester students of English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University in Academic Year 2019/2020 could be improved trough Think Pair Share with distance learning model.
Highlights
Since March 2020, government published a regulation for students to learn from home due to the spread of Corona Virus
The pre-test was administrated to the subjects before think pair share with distance learning model was applied in order to figure out the subjects’ pre-existing achievement in writing skill especially descriptive paragraph
The data were collected from the second semester students of English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University in academic year 2019/2020 which consisted of 34 students
Summary
Since March 2020, government published a regulation for students to learn from home due to the spread of Corona Virus. It expects teachers to deliver their materials online or using distance learning model. A disruption happened to Indonesian education system. The pandemic did not limit teachers’ creativity in teaching. They brought the face to face class to online class. It happened to Mahasaraswati Denpasar University, especially English Language Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training. The lecturers switched to online class with step by step improvement in teaching
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