THE EFFECT OF REFORMULATION TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY

Henny Septia Utami

doi:10.24235/eltecho.v3i2.3604

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether reformulation technique gives significant effect on student’s writing ability. The design of this research is an experimental research that is classified into a randomized pretest and posttest group design. There are two groups involved in this research: experiment and control group. Those two groups are chosen based on the normality and homogenity calculations. The instrument used is writing test which is given as pretest and posttest. To ensure the validity and reliability of the instrument, it was tried out before being used and the students’ writings were scored by three raters. The data were analyzed by using T-test. The result shows that this technique gives significant effect to students’ ability in writing.

Highlights

The techniques of teaching English in Indonesia have changed during the years following the change of the curriculum
In teaching the genre of the texts, most of the teachers only focus on making the students able to comprehend the texts and answer several questions related to the texts. This problem might appear because writing is not tested in national examination
Prior to the beginning of the research, the pretest, which was about writing a recount text was given to the both groups in order to check the group equivalence.Before the pretest was administered to both groups, it was validated by using content validity

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Introduction

The techniques of teaching English in Indonesia have changed during the years following the change of the curriculum. Some schoolsstill implementthe 2006 curriculum, which is called the school-based curriculum or Kurikulum Tingkat SatuanPendidikan (KTSP), while others have already implemented K-13 According to those curriculum, the purpose of teaching English is similar, that is to develop students’ ability in the four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in order to make the students able to communicate well both in the oral and written form. In teaching the genre of the texts, most of the teachers only focus on making the students able to comprehend the texts and answer several questions related to the texts This problem might appear because writing is not tested in national examination

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