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2025•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
Writing is recognized as an important skill for effective communication and the expression of ideas. However, many students still struggle to develop this skill. This research was conducted due to the low writing achievement of students and it aimed to determine the effect of using personal photos as a learning medium on the writing achievement of eleventh-grade students at SMAN 3 Tarakan. This research used a pre-experimental design with a one-group pre-test and post-test model, involving 36 students from class XI-A. The instruments used written test in the form of a pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The research results indicated an improvement in students’ writing achievement. In the pre-test stage, the average score of 58.5 was below the school's minimum standard (KKTP), indicating that most students had not yet reached the expected competencies in writing skills. However, after giving the treatment through the use of personal photos as a learning media, the mean score improved to 71.98, which means it had exceeded the school’s standard score and indicated a significant improvement in students’ writing achievement. The Wilcoxon test results showed a significance value of 0.000 (p 0.05), which means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. These findings showed that the use of personal photograph has a statistically significant effect in improving the writing achievements of eleventh-grade students at SMAN 3 Tarakan.
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2021•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
ABSTRACT AGUSTINAH. 2021. The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Habit and Students’ Descriptive Writing Achievement of Eleventh Graders at SMKN 2 Tarakan. (Advisor: Romlah Ulfaika, M.Pd) The purpose of this research was to find out the relationship between reading habits and students’ descriptive writing achievement at eleventh grader of SMKN 2 Tarakan in the academic year 2020/2021 or not. This research used a quantitative approach method. The numbers of samples in this research were 60 eleventh graders which used a random sampling technique. There were two variables in this research, independent variable (students’ reading habit) and dependent variable (students’ descriptive writing achievement). Students were given a questionnaire in the reading habit test, while the writing test using the description text test. In analyzing data, researchers used Pearson product moment formula. This research indicated that on students’ reading habit, the result showed 3 students very high with 5%. Then, 16 students were in high with a rate of 26,67% and 15 students with a moderate portion of 25%. Meanwhile, there were 18 students with low reading habits with a percentage of 30%, and there were 8 students in very low with the percentage 13,33%. On students’ descriptive writing achievement there were no students in very good category with percentage 0%, 2 students were in the good category with percentage 3,33%, 6 students were in a fair category with percentage 10%, and on the contrary, the last point, there were 52 students in low category with percentage 86,67%. The results of Pearson Product Moment show a correlation coefficient or the rtest which was 0.812, it was higher than rtable, which was 0.254. The level of probability significance (Sig. 2-tailed), which was 0.000, was lower than the level of significance, which was 0.05. The result indicates that there was a significant correlation between reading habit and students’ descriptive writing achievement. In addition, it can be concluded the result of this research show when the score of reading habit is bad, their writing quality is also bad. In contrast, if the score of students’ reading habit is good, their writing test score is also good
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2020•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
ABSTRACT The Effect of KWL Strategy to Improve Students’ Writing Achievement of Seventh Grade Student at Smp Nasional Plus Indo Tionghoa – Tarakan. Advisor : Romlah Ulfaika, M.Pd, The Purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of Know, Want to Know, Learned (KWL) strategy could improve students’ writing achievement. The subject of this research were seventh grade students at SMP Nasional Plus Indo Tionghoa Tarakan in the 2019/2020 academic year. Writing is one of the English skills that student must master and acquire in learning a new language. In this study, the KWL strategy that used tables was applied to teach writing to the students. The instrument used was a writing test in the form of posttest and pretest. Data were analyzed descriptively with the help of the SPSS 24.0. The analysis results showed that there was a significant difference in the mean score between the pretest and posttest. Mean score for pretest was 63.67 and for the pretest was 72.00. There was an increase of 8.33 points, with the posttest score being higher. The results of the paired sample test showed the calculated t value (7,174) was higher than the critical t value (2,042), indicating the acceptance of the Ha. It was concluded that the use of KWL strategy was able to improve the students’ writing achievement. Apart from that, the students’ opinions about the KWL strategy also showed that it helped them in learning to write.
