Abstract This study aims at investigating any significance difference between the writing achievement of students who were taught by using journal writing technique and those by conventional writing technique and investigating any interactional effect between the implementation of those techniques and the studentsâ achievement motivation upon studentsâ writing achievement. This research was a post-test only control group design which was conducted in the fourth semester students of English Education Department, Undiksha. The result shows that there is a significant difference between the writing achievement of the students taught by using journal writing technique and those by conventional writing technique, where the students taught by using journal writing technique shows better writing achievement than the students taught by using conventional writing technique. In addition, there is a significant interactional effect between the implementation of those techniques and the studentsâ achievement motivation. Keywords: Journal writing technique, achievement motivation, writing achievement
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