This study was aimed to investigate how collaborative writing improved students’ writing skill.The research subject was class D of third semester students at Bengkulu Muhammadiyah University in academic year 2012 / 2013. This research was qualitative research which focused on classroom action research (CAR). The data were collected from field note, observation checklist, students’ final…

The researcher realizes that writing skill is difficult to be achieved because it depends on many factors. There are some factors which make the students find it difficult to development writing skill, such as the differences between English and Indonesian language system of spelling, pronunciation, grammar. In addition selection of vocabulary is the also important factor that influences st…

This descriptive qualitative case study is intended to investigate the implementation of Genre Based Approach (GBA) to teach writing in an EFL classroom. There are four issues posed in the study. The first how the teacher prepared the teaching materials for classroom instructional practices. The second is how the teacher conducted the instructional practices in the classroom. The third is how …

This study involved the writing lesson of the tenth grade students at SMK (Vocational High School) YMIK In Jakarta in the academic year 2013/2014. It was conducted in order to improve their skill in writing argumentative paragraph through process approach, because they were observed to have problem in term of completeness, topic sentence, unity, coherence, diction, grammar and mechanics with…

The purpose of the study is to know and to analyze the relationship between field independence and field dependence style in improving narrative writing by students of eighth grade at Junior High School 9 Tangerang. The Population of this research are the students in the eighth grade of SMP N 9 Tangerang 20010/2011 academic year. The taken samples in this research are two classes from the sev…

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the implementation of mind mapping in teaching writing, the teacher’s and the students’ problems, and responses to the using of mind mapping in teaching writing especially narrative text. This study is conducted at the eleventh grade students of social class of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 13 Jakarta. This study uses qualitative research design to find …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of motivation to learn translation and the writing skill in Indonesian toward the ability to translate an argumentative text from Indonesian into English, both separately and simultaneously. A quantitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics: mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequenc…

This research focused on teaching technique and writing habit, and both effect on students' writing ability in descriptive text for students of seventh grade Al-Izzah Islamic Junior High School, Serang Banten academic year 2011/2012. It was conducted in quantitative approach with experimental design. From 179 (students sample) of five classes, he decides only 2 classes of seventh Akhwat 2 (33 s…

This study aims at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit grammar instruction on the students' ability to use the taught grammar in writing a hortatory exposition text. It was held at Senior Secondary School 8 Bogor. Two groups were treated as experiment group and comparison group. Experiment group which consisted of 40 students was treated with explicit grammar instruction, while co…

This study investigated the relationship between grammar competency (reported speech) as X1, to students' writing ability in forming news item text as Y (X1 to Y), the relationship between reading habit as X2 to writing ability (X2 to Y), and both of grammar competency (reported speech) and reading habit to students' writing ability in forming news item text (X1 and X2 to Y) of 182 students in …