The Effect of Reflective Journal Writing on Students’ Writing Ability of Narrative Text
- DOI
- 10.2991/icems-17.2018.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- reflective journal writing, writing ability, narrative text
- Abstract
This research is aimed to obtain the empirical evidence about the effect of reflective journal writing on students’ writing ability of narrative text at the tenth-grade students of SMA Triguna Utama South Tangerang. The writer used quasi-experimental research which classified into a quantitative research. The population of the research was 273 students from six classes. The sample was chose by using purposive sampling technique which selected into the experimental class and the control class. It consisted of 30 students in each class. Moreover, the writer used the pretest and the post-test as the instruments of the research. In the experimental class, the writer taught the reflective journal writing by using a social media Line Application in teaching writing of the narrative text. While in the controlled class, the writer taught the students by implementing the conventional teaching technique such as asking the students to do the written exercises and answering ten reading comprehension questions based on the narrative text given. Also, the writer collected the data of this research by following some steps such as providing the pretest, providing the treatments during conducted the research, and giving the post-test at the end of the research. The data from the research were calculated by using Microsoft Excel 2017 and then would be analyzed automatically by using SPSS version 20 with the significance level 0.05. Furthermore, the result showed that the t-value of the post-test (2.071) and the gained scores (7.882) were higher than the t-table (1.667) in the significance level of 0.05. Based on the result, if t-value was higher than t-table, it meant that H0 (null hypotheses) was rejected and Ha was accepted. Therefore, it could be concluded that reflective journal writing was effective in improving students’ writing ability of narrative text
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Firdaus Habibi AU - Ismalianing Eviyuliwati AU - Sunardi Kartowisastro PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - The Effect of Reflective Journal Writing on Students’ Writing Ability of Narrative Text BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 16 EP - 20 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icems-17.2018.4 DO - 10.2991/icems-17.2018.4 ID - Habibi2017/10 ER -