A Scavenger Hunt Game to teaching Descriptive Writing to Students in Padang Tikar I

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10.2991/978-2-38476-190-6_5How to use a DOI?

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Descriptive text; scavenger hunt game; teaching writing

Abstract

Previous studies focused on the application of scavenger hunt game to teach reading and vocabulary building. Apparently, little studies focused the game to teaching descriptive writing with an emphasis to collaboration and teamwork that would allow the students with the highest performance to help the students with the lowest performance in writing descriptive texts. This pre-experimental study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the scavenger hunt game in teaching descriptive writing to students at a public senior high school in Padang Tikar I, Batu Ampar, Kubu Raya, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia. The main researcher used cluster random sampling to select a group of students (n=40) to participate in this study. Then, the main researcher utilized a pre-test session, a treatment session using scavenger hunt game, and a post-test session. The data collection used writing tests that tested its readability. The results of the descriptive statistics and inferential statistics revealed that there is a significance difference of the results of the pre-test (m: 49.27 with SD: 8.58) and post-test (m: 69.10 with SD: 6.80), which the effect size value (1.28) is regarded as strong effect. Accordingly, scavenger hunt game is effective to teaching writing descriptive texts to the students where they, under the direction of the main researcher, collaborated through the game to cope with the writing tasks. Future studies could involve affective variables, integrate with digital applications, and implement the game in another context.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aunurrahman Aunurrahman
AU  - Heryanto Heryanto
AU  - Ageung Darajat
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/30
TI  - A Scavenger Hunt Game to teaching Descriptive Writing to Students in Padang Tikar I
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 46
EP  - 53
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-190-6_5
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-190-6_5
ID  - Aunurrahman2023
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