This study is entitled “Students’ Perspectives on the Use of Authentic Materials Toward Their Writing Ability in Creative Writing Class”. The researcher formulates a research question: “What are students’ perspectives on the use of authentic materials toward their writing ability in Creative Writing class”. Utilizing authentic materials to empower students’ writing ability has…
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, students of the academic year 2018 in ELESP, Pakuan University experienced online learning. This may lead to a different result of the study compared to studying offline. The purpose of this study is to find out the difficulties students face in Academic Writing lessons which are carried out online at home. This research applies descriptive method. Th…
This paper is entitled “The Use of Sentence Starters on Students’ Ability to Write a Descriptive Text”. The statement of the problem in this research is “do sentence starters affect students’ ability to write a descriptive text”. This research is to investigate the effect of using Sentence Starters on students’ ability to write a descriptive text. This is held at SMP NUSANTARA…
The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write Narrative Text” is aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ understamding of simple past tenses and their ability in writing Narrative text. This research was correlation study. Research population was eight grade students of SMPN Dhar…
The paper entitled “Students’ Strategies to Overcome the Lack of Vocabulary in Writing” was guided by using one research question: “What are strategies applied by the students to overcome their problems at the lack of vocabulary in writing?.” This research aimed to find out students’ strategies to overcome the lack of vocabulary in writing. The writer used descriptive qualitati…
Writing is one of English skills which enables students to write down their ideas. It is very beneficial because it can facilitate other activities during learning process. Among kinds of texts taught by the teacher during writing activities is recount text. Recount text is a text that retells about event, experience and action in the past. In writing recount text one of the grammar that st…
This research aims to know whether there is a different effect of the use of scavenger hunt game and taboo game on students' ability to write descriptive text. This research used a quasi-experimental design with a quantitative approach. The sample of this research is the students in class X Administrasi Perkantoran 1 and X Administrasi Perkantoran 2 of SMK IT Bina Insani. Scavenger hunt gam…
Learning media is very important to improve the effectiveness of learning, especially in improving students' writing skills. In this study, the researcher developed a new digital-based learning media innovation that uses comic strips as a tool to improve students' ability to write narrative texts. This learning media is designed to make learning interesting and interactive by integrating vi…