THE EFFECTS OF GRAMMAR MASTERY AND CRITICAL THINKING ON STUDENT’S DESCRIPTIVE WRITING SKILL
Journal Title: ELT in Focus - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to find out the effect of grammar mastery and critical thinking on student’s descriptive writing skill. The research method was a survey research. The research sample included ninety students and were selected through random sampling at a private senior high school in Karawang. The research instruments consisted of test and questionnaire. The result indicated that (1) both grammars learned by student and critical thinking ability affect the student’s writing skill as evidenced by the Fcount = 339.539 and significance value (0.000 < 0.05). The grammar also affects the student’s descriptive writing skill as shown by by tcount = 26.037 and significance value (0.000 < 0.05). Finally, critical thinking ability has no effect on the student’s descriptive writing skill, as indicated by tcount = 0.858 and significance value (0.393 > 0.05).
Authors and Affiliations
Nina Puspitaloka
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP658593
- DOI -
- Views 208
- Downloads 0
LEARNER AUTONOMY DESIRABILITY AND FEASIBILITY IN INDONESIAN EFL CLASSROOMS: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ VOICESLEARNER AUTONOMY DESIRABILITY AND FEASIBILITY IN INDONESIAN EFL CLASSROOMS: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ VOICES
For its promises in helping learners to develop their language proficiency, independent learning skill, thinking skill, and collaborative skill, numerous research and practices have been conducted regarding the promotion...
TEACHING ANXIETY EXPERIENCED BY INDONESIAN STUDENT TEACHERS OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
With the demands of professionals, the study reports that there is a great deal of anxiety that arises in real teaching. As an effort to reduce the teaching anxiety, this study explores the level of teaching anxiety face...
DEVELOPMENT OF BASIC ANALYSIS OF PROSE COURSEBOOK CONTAINING CRITICAL THEORIES AT A STATE UNIVERSITY IN KARAWANG
Given the importance of the role of textbooks in the process of knowledge transfer , it is necessary to develop literary coursebooks that subtly contain critical theories in order to produce better quality resources in c...
THE USE OF ENGLISH TEACHING METHODS IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KARAWANG
This study focused on the related analysis of English language teaching methods implemented by teachers in a secondary school in Karawang regency. This study used survey research method, utilising mailed-questionnaire te...
LEARNING ENGLISH WORD CLASS BY USING CONCORDANCE SOFTWARE
Concordance is one of the software based corpus linguistics which aims to analyse the unlimited language data. This software helps deliver lecturing comprehensively and is understood easily by students. Regarding to this...