creators_name: Kurniandani Rosaida, 1413042035
creators_id: kurniandani95@gmail.com
type: other
datestamp: 2022-06-07 08:02:48
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title: IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT USING VISUAL
THINKING STRATEGY FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
ispublished: pub
subjects: 370
subjects: 400
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: Writing in junior high schools is one of the four English skills the students have to
learn. Teaching writing English in Indonesian junior high schools is not an easy
task. In academic purposes, the students require not only able to speak but also to
write in English. To get excellent achievement in writing, they had to master the
five aspects such as; content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics.
Moreover, based on the observation at SMPN 1 Rawajitu Timur, the researcher
found out that the students’ writing skill was still low, because of the lack of
students’ competence in writing sentences especially in grammar and mechanic
and the low used of visual sources. Therefore, this research was aimed to find out
the significant improvement of students’ writing skill and the aspect of writing
that improved the most after being taught by using Visual Thinking Strategy at the
first grade of SMPN 1 Rawajitu Timur. This research was a quantitative which
used one group pretest-posttest design.
The subjects of this research were 30 students of class VII B at SMPN 1 Rawajitu
Timur in the academic year 2017/2018. Furthermore, the writing test was used as
the instrument in this research. Additionally, there were two raters to assess
students’ writing achievement in order to fulfill the reliability of the test. With the
regards to construct validity, the students’ writing achievement were measured in
only five aspects of writing, they are: content, organization, grammar, vocabulary,
and mechanic. Moreover, the materials given were suitable with the curriculum to
fulfill the content validity of the test. Thus, the data were analyzed using repeated
measure t-test in which the significance was determined by p<0.05.
The result of the research showed that, the significant level is 0.002, lower than
0.05. The mean score of posttest (70.5) was higher than the pretest (56.7) and the
gain was 13.8. It means that there was a significant improvement in the students’
writing achievement after being taught using Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS).
Overall, regarding to the results above, it can be stated that VTS is effective to
improve students’ writing skill in describing people.
Keywords: VTS, writing, describing people.
date: 2021
date_type: published
publisher: FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
place_of_pub: UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
citation:   Kurniandani Rosaida, 1413042035  (2021) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT USING VISUAL THINKING STRATEGY FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.  FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG.     
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62709/1/ABSTRAK%20-%20fera%20febriyanti.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62709/2/SKRIPSI%20FULL-dikonversi%20-%20fera%20febriyanti.pdf
document_url: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/62709/3/SKRIPSI%20TANPA%20BAB%20PEMBAHASAN.%20%281%29%20-%20fera%20febriyanti.pdf