This research aims to discover whether there was a significant effect of haiku and cinquain on students’ skill of writing poetry. This research used experimental research design. The population of the research was 210 students from six classes of 12th grade students of SMAN 63 Jakarta in academic year 2015/2016. The researcher used proposed sampling technique which took two classes as the e…

This research was conducted to find out the students’ perception and expectation of teacher roles and rapport in teaching writing at University of Muhammadiyah Sorong. This research used is mixed-method approach and convergent parallel design. The researcher used questionnaires and interview as the instruments of this research. Twelve students participated as participants in this research. Th…

The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference result of students who is using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Task-Based Learning (TBL), and whether there is a significant interaction of gender and learning method (CALL and TBL). A quantitative analysis that included descriptive statistic (mode, median, range, mean, standard, deviati…

This study is aimed to investigate whether the use of teaching writing approaches (genre-based approach and process writing approach) toward students’ writing skill at the eleventh grade students at SMKN 1 Pandeglang. This research used quasi-experimental design. There were two experimental classes divided into two groups. The experimental class was taught by using genre-based approach meanwh…

A number of barriers that students faced in learning writing, such as about lack of writing performance, low motivation, high anxiety, and lack of communication with the teacher. Dialogue journal writing was presented in the present study to develop students’ writing skill based on two points of views, where it included writing performance and students’ perceptions when using dialogue j…

This thesis aims to reveal Discourse analysis on writing in term of cohesion and coherence of first year students at Psychology Faculty of University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR.HAMKA (UHAMKA).The analysis on students’ writing is that of using cohesive devices as part of unity in sentence level and coherence in the level of mind. Cohesive devices and coherence become the integral parts of a tex…

The objectives of this research were to investigate whether 1) there is a significant difference between students who are treated by pictures-series and those who are treated by diagrams on students’ writing skill; 2) there is significant difference between impulsive and reflective students on students’ writing skill; and 3) there is a significant interaction between visual aids and stu…

Self-reflection in portfolio gives contribution to student’s writing skill. Writing is considered to be a sequence of complicated process in which the students need to organize their ideas and develop it into a systematic order. Due to its complexity process, students often find problems in writing such as ideas organization, sentence arrangements, punctuation, and capitalization. However, t…

Based on the the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the grade 12th students at SMAN 1 Ciruas, SMAN 1 Pontang, and SMAN Tirtayasa, faced some difficulties in accomplishing their application letter writing.Some students still produced incorrect grammatical and vocabulary use in their writing tasks, especially in their practical writing examination. This study was performed to…

This study was aimed to find out the use of peer feedback through track changes in the students‟ writing. The subject is the fifth semester students of Indonesia College of Economics (STEI), Jakarta. Through the process of observations and interviews, the writer knew how track changes is implemented and found that there are positive perspectives and numerous benefits of peer feedback thro…