This research was conducted in two cycles, from 14th of January to the 22nd of April 2019. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. The steps of research were planning, action, observation, and reflection. The subject of the research were 28 students of IX class which consisted of 8 females and 16 males and the English teacher. The data were qualitative form. The qualitative data were collected …

This thesis aims to investigate the needs in a course called Paragraph Writing in a university in Karawang, West Java and proposed a syllabus for the course. The research instruments used in this case study research were writing test, questionnaire, classroom observation, and interview. The results showed the target of the course, the students‟ problems and the teaching approach and strat…

This study aimed to study the implementation of self and peer- assessment checklist to assess students’ writing. This study investigated how students do the assessment tasks and the opinions of students after using self and peer-assessment checklist in assessing their writing. The study involved nineteen students of eleventh grade and used a mixed- method research design conducted at SMK Nus…

The present study attempts to find out the EFL teachers’ teaching strategies in teaching writing for students with special needs in public schools, to find out the influential factors of EFL teacher’s teaching strategies in teaching writing for students with special needs in public schools and to find out the application of EFL teacher strategies in teaching writing for students with specia…

This research was conducted to know the roles of diary and written corrective feedback in improving students’ descriptive writing. This research used a classroom action research. The writer used observation, test and an interview as the instruments of this research. Thirteen students as participants in this research and the research conducted into three cycles. The finding of research showed …

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…

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…

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…

The objective of this research is find out (1) How the plan of using semantic mapping enrich vocabulary in the students’ writing; (2) How the implementation of teaching English using semantic mapping improve students’ writing; and (3) How the teacher evaluate students’ writing using semantic mapping. This research was conducted at SMPN 3 Pasarkemis Tangerang from June 2013 to February 201…