creators_name: MERI NOVIANI M , 1423042019
creators_id:  merinovianim@gmail.com
type: thesis
datestamp: 2017-10-13 04:28:45
lastmod: 2017-10-13 04:28:45
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title: DEVELOPING ONLINE READING AND DISCUSSION BOARDS AS
PRE-WRITING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING
ACHIEVEMENT
ispublished: pub
subjects: LB
subjects: PE
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: This research was conducted to find out whether online reading and discussion
boards on facebook as pre-writing activities can improve writing quality better
than pre-writing activity through printed reading, what aspects of writing are
significantly improved, and the students’ perception of ORDB on Facebook as
pre-writing activities .
This research is designed on a combination of quantitave and qualitative research.
In quantitative design, control group pre-test and post-test design was conducted
to support the findings in writing performance after the treatment. In qualitative
design, questionnaire was conducted to see students’ perception of ORDB on
facebook as pre-writing activities. The subjects, who were chosen by simple
random probability sampling, were the third semester students of college students
in writing class. They were divided into two group, the experimental group and
control group, each consists of 17 students.
The result of the data analysis showed students’ writing performance were
promoted as the value of two tailed significance of the tests between experimental
and control group was less than 0.05. In this case, the value of two-tailed
significance was 0.000. Based on the aspects of writing which are significantly
improved, ORDB on facebook as pre-writing activities promoted their writing
performance mainly in vocabulary. Students improved their vocabulary with gain
1.62 (8.1%) with pre-writing through printed reading and 3.06 (15.3%) with
ORDB. The result showed the difference of both pre-writing.
Based on questionnaire, the most enjoyment on improving their writing is feeling
encouraged by friends “liking” the ideas and comments, with the mean score of
3.2353. Besides that, for the problems, students initially found it the highest mean
score of 3.1765 for the problem that facebook creates bad habits of relying on the
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online correction tools (vocab and spelling) and it creates habit of using too many
short forms in writing (students use informal English leads to grammar mistake).
It was noted that this way of social interaction may also lead the students to be
more comfortable in providing comments and increase their motivation and
participation in writing.
Finally, it could be concluded that the students’ active engagement in ORDB on
facebook as pre-writing activities could improve students’ writing performance.
date: 2017-08-18
date_type: published
institution:  LAMPUNG UNIVERSITY
department: TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
thesis_type: masters
citation:   MERI NOVIANI M , 1423042019  (2017) DEVELOPING ONLINE READING AND DISCUSSION BOARDS AS PRE-WRITING ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT.  Masters thesis,  LAMPUNG UNIVERSITY.   
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/28574/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/28574/2/A%20THESIS%20FULL.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/28574/3/A%20THESIS%20WITHOUT%20RESULT%20DISCUSSIONS.pdf