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IMPLEMENTING PROCESS WRITING APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE WRITING SKILL OF THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI UNIVERSITY Rika - Riwayatiningsih
Nusantara of Research : Jurnal Hasil-hasil Penelitian Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri Vol 2 No 1 (2015)
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The design of this study is a classroom action research. The objective of this study is to investigate how the process writing approach improves the writing skill on the second semester students of  English Department at Nusantara PGRI kediri University. Based on the findings and discussions of this study, it can be concluded that the process writing approach could improve the students’ ability in writing a recount text. It was shown by all the subjects who reached significant improvements on each stage of writing. Firstly, most of the subjects or 75% of them were able to explore, select, and order ideas to make a good outline. Secondly, 75% of the students were able to jot down their ideas on the paper which focused on the content and meaning as a development of their outline. Thirdly, 79% of them were able to revise their draft for content clarity of meaning as the teacher suggested. They were able to check the draft whether it had already contained an orientation, event and reorientation or not and also checked whether each paragraph contained a topic sentence, add or delete all supporting details for unity, and rearrange ideas for coherence. Fourthly, 83% of them were able to do peer-editing activity.
The Effect of Roundtable Technique to the Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement In Narrative Text To The Second Year Students MA HM Tribakti Kediri Rika - Riwayatiningsih; Heni Lailatul Muazizah
English Education:Journal of English Teaching and Research Vol 1 No 1 (2016): English Education
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Reading is one of the language skills which is very important to develop students’ knowledge in their studies. To make students understand what they read, it needs techniques. This study aims at finding the effect of roundtable technique to their reading ability. roundtable technique is a technique in which the students are in teams, write a response on their own piece of paper, pass their papers clockwise so each teammate can add to the prior responses. It is an experimental study using One-group Pretest-Posttest design. The data were taken from one class consisting 26 students of the elevent grade of MA HM TribaktiLirboyo Kediri. The data were collected using pre-test, treatment and then post-test. Then the data were analyzed using T-test formula. From data analysis, it can be found that the mean score of post-test (89,92) is higher than mean score of pre-test (58,07). The T-score (at the degree of freedom of 26 is 156,73, that is higher than the t-table at the level of significance of 1% 2,787 and 2,060 at the level of significance of 5%. So, the T-score (156,73) ≥ T-table, and the level of significance is 1 % (2,787). It means that it is very significant, so the H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. It can be concluded that Roundtable Technique is effective to increases students’ reading comprehension. So it is recommended that Roundtable Technique can be used in teaching reading . The other writers are expected to conduct a better research about Roundtable Technique because small Roundtable Technique is effective to use.