@misc{eprints8746, month = {April}, title = {IMPROVING STUDENTS' DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY THROUGH TEACHER'S INDIRECT FEEDBACK AT THE FIRST YEAR OF MA AL-HIKMAH BANDAR LAMPUNG}, author = {0913042043 Gilang Jaka Pramana}, address = {UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG}, publisher = {FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN }, year = {2015}, url = {http://digilib.unila.ac.id/8746/}, abstract = {ABSTRACT The objectives of this research were to see whether teacher's indirect feedback can improve students' descriptive writing ability or not and to see what aspect of writing improved more after its implementation in teaching descriptive writing. The researcher used pre-test and post-test design in this research. Based on the data, it was found that there were significant improvements in students? descriptive writing ability. The data shows that the mean improved from 57.96 (pretest) to 72.41 (posttest) and the value of significance was 0.000 and the sign {\ensuremath{<}} {\ensuremath{\alpha}} (0.000 {\ensuremath{<}} 0.05). Mechanics got the highest increase in which the mean score was increased from 7.78 (pretest) to 13.33 (posttest). It can be said that teacher?s indirect feedback can be used as an alternative ways in teaching writing in order to improve students? descriptive writing ability.} }