This study presents an overview of research devoted to factors affecting the students' English writing achievement in EFL setting which examines the relationship between age and anxiety in details towards Indonesian students' English writing performance. Data were collected from 66 students of LIA English course - intermediate levels comprising senior high to university levels with the age rang…

This study aims to investigate the effects of direct and metalinguistic corrective feedback on students' structure in Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 2 Bogor. Two out of nine classes of the eleventh grade are chosen as the sample of this study using cluster random sampling. Specially, this study aims to answer the following research questions: (1) what is the effect of direct corrective feedback on stud…

This study is to investigate the effectiveness of using ' Quantum Writing' or 'Free writing approach' in students' writing composition academically at University of Pamulang Tangerang Selatan, Banten. The purpose of this study is: (1) to find out whether there is an effectiveness of using free writing and quantum writing, (2) to improve students' writing composition academically using the two t…

Although peer feedback, in which students evaluate each other's papers, has been beneficial in many writing classrooms, however the benefits of blog-based peer feedback and face-to-face peer feedback, have not been thoroughly investigated in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. The purpose of this research is to determine which is more beneficial to enhance students' ess…

The research is aimed to find out whether splash games or "Challenge 3" textbook is effective in improving students' ability to write narrative text. the research was conducted to 9th grade students of SMP Labschool Kebayoran in the first semester. Two out of five classes were chosen randomly in the research, those were, 9D and 9E each of which consisted of 38 students. The pre-test and post-te…

The purpose of the research is to explore goofing that students made in their writings and difficulties of writing. Specifically, this research attempts to answer the question "what type of goofing made by the students in their writing in the class" and "what difficulties do the students made in their writing". The data of the research, were gathered by the way of classroom observations and int…

The present study shows some lights an area that has been relatively untouched. It analyzes the differences in the strategies the students employ. The strategies comprise metacognitive, cognitive, and social-affective strategies held about writing an argumentative paragraph. The participants were screened from out of twenty people. The data were gathered by means of think-aloud from the four sc…

This study is intented to investigate and to analyze the implementation of genre based approach in teaching narrative text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 13 Jakarta. The study was conducted to find the answer to the following research questions: (1) How is the teachers' understanding to teach narrative writing? (2) How is the teachers' understanding the knowledge about genre based approach? (3) How …

This study is intended to investigate and to analyze Implementing Portfolio as Teaching Model to improve Student’s Writing ability at State Polytechnic of Creative Media. The study was conducted to find the answers to the following research questions: (1) How is the implementation of portfolio as teaching model at State Polytechnic of Creative Media, (2) What are the benefits of implementatio…

This research is a kind of survey and aims to find out and analyze empirically the correlation between students’ first language reading and first language writing abilities with their English reading achievement. The observed population of this research is students from Primary Global Islamic School in East Jakarta. The sample was gained through cluster random sampling. This research has…