Contextualization to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- improving, writing, writing ability, context, contextualization
- Abstract
This study aims at improving the writing ability of grade seventh through contextualization at a state junior high school in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Contextualization means to teach language in a context or to provide a context for language teaching to the language teaching and learning process connected with real life. The study was an action research. Three cycles consisting of nine meetings were performed. A class of grade seven students at the school was the subjects of this study. Data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification were used to analyze students’ writing qualitatively. Descriptive quantitative analysis was also used to analyze the data. The results show some improvements in the students’ writing ability. First, students felt that their learning was meaningful. Second, students were motivated in writing. Third, students could express their ideas and develop them into paragraphs. Fourth, students’ grammatical mistakes were reduced. The result of quantitative data showed that the average scores of the content, paragraph organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics improved significantly. In terms of the process, the students’ positive behavior on the verbal and non-verbal aspects improved while their negative behavior decreased.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Humaera Silvia Maristy AU - Margana PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/05 TI - Contextualization to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 196 EP - 202 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.038 ID - Maristy2020 ER -