The Effectiveness of CIRC Method and Comic-strip Media to English Writing Ability

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10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

CIRC; comic strip; writing.

Abstract

All university students are expected to be able to write in English. One way to achieve this purpose is through comic-strip media. This aims of this study to determine the effectiveness of the comic-strip media in improving English writing ability of mechanical engineering students. This research focus on writing procedure text.This research applied quasi-experimental "pre-test post-test design". It was conducted at the Muhammadiyah University of Metro in academic Year 2015/2016. The population involved in this study is mechanical engineering students which consisted of 60 students and were dividedinto 30 students as experimental class and 30students as control class. The variables of this study were (1) CIRC Method with comic-strip media as independent variables, (2) Ability to write as the dependent variable. The instrument used in this study was the writing test. To analyze the data, researcher used ttest formula. The results showed the value of ttestTTable 3.57 and 2.00 (criterion 1) and 2.66 (criterion 2). From these results it can be concluded that the CIRC method through comic strips can improve writing ability in mechanical engineering students.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)
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