Contextualization to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

improving, writing, writing ability, context, contextualization

Abstract

This study aims at improving the writing ability of grade seventh through contextualization at a state junior high school in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Contextualization means to teach language in a context or to provide a context for language teaching to the language teaching and learning process connected with real life. The study was an action research. Three cycles consisting of nine meetings were performed. A class of grade seven students at the school was the subjects of this study. Data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification were used to analyze students’ writing qualitatively. Descriptive quantitative analysis was also used to analyze the data. The results show some improvements in the students’ writing ability. First, students felt that their learning was meaningful. Second, students were motivated in writing. Third, students could express their ideas and develop them into paragraphs. Fourth, students’ grammatical mistakes were reduced. The result of quantitative data showed that the average scores of the content, paragraph organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics improved significantly. In terms of the process, the students’ positive behavior on the verbal and non-verbal aspects improved while their negative behavior decreased.

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© 2020, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Humaera Silvia Maristy
AU  - Margana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/05
TI  - Contextualization to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 196
EP  - 202
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038
ID  - Maristy2020
ER  -