Improving Writing Skills of the English Department Students of Tidar University through Focusing on the Use of Cohesive Devices

Wahyuningsih, Effi (2016) Improving Writing Skills of the English Department Students of Tidar University through Focusing on the Use of Cohesive Devices. S2 thesis, UNY.

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Abstract

This study was aimed at improving the writing skills of the English Department students of Tidar University. This is a classroom action research implementing Kemmis & Taggart‟s model which consists of four steps namely planning, action and observation, and reflection. They were employed in three cycles. Twenty four students of class F taking Paragraph Writing class became the subjects whose paragraphs were the objects of the research. The data collected in this research were the quantitative data gained through questionnaires and writing tests in which the results were analyzed using SPSS by giving descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean, standard deviation, and percentage. Meanwhile, the qualitative data gathered by observation, interview, and written testimonies resulting field notes and transcription were analyzed through data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results of the research reveal that the use of cohesive devices promotes the students to get progress in their writing skills. They are achieved through some indicators shown in each cycle. They cover the improvement of: a) the mean score of each writing component affecting the increase of the mean score of the students‟ writing tests from 63.23 (pre-test) to 65.75 (post-test 1), 72.38 (post-test 2), and 83.21 (post-test 3), b) the scoring category from “average” to “good”, c) the students‟ learning gain from 0.07 (cycle one), 0.24 (cycle two), and 0.54 (cycle three), d) the number of the students getting improvement in which the writing skills of all students (100%) improve at the end of cycle three, and e) the correct use of cohesive devices in which reference type gets the highest percentage of use followed by conjunction and lexical cohesion particularly showing that personal references, temporal conjunctions, and synonyms are mostly used in the students‟ writing. In addition, the class of Paragraph Writing by focusing on the use of cohesive devices is able to raise the students‟ motivation which can be seen through their active participation, excitement, and positive response during the instructional process, and their interest in writing. In conclusion, the writing skills of the English Department students of Tidar University can be improved through focusing on the use of cohesive devices.

Item Type:	Thesis (S2)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cohesive devices, students’ paragraph writing skills, classroom action research
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions:	Sekolah Pascasarjana (SPS) > Program Pascasarjana > Linguistik Terapan
Depositing User:	Perpustakaan Pascasarjana
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2016 00:15
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 03:21
URI:	http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/29886

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