IMPROVING STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY THROUGH TEACHER’S INDIRECT FEEDBACK

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat apakah umpan balik tak langsung dari guru dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis deskriptif siswa serta melihat aspek menulis apa yang paling berkembang setelah penerapannya dalam mengajar penulisan deskriptif. Peneliti menggunakan desain pretest and posttest pada penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata meningkat dari 57,96 (pretest) ke 72,41 (posttest) dan nilai signifikansi berada dibawah 0.05. Mekanik mendapatkan peningkatan tertinggi dimana nilai rata-rata meningkat dari 7,78 (pretest) ke 13,33 (posttest). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa umpan balik tak langsung dari guru dapat digunakan sebagai salah satu cara alternatif dalam pengajaran menulis guna meningkatkan kemampuan menulis deskriptif siswa.

The objectives of this research were to see whether teacher’s indirect feedback can improve students’ descriptive writing ability or not and to see what aspect of writing improved more after its implementation in teaching descriptive writing. The researcher used pre-test and post-test design in this research. Based on the data, it was found that there were significant improvements in students’ descriptive writing ability. The data shows that the mean improved from 57.96 (pretest) to 72.41 (posttest) and the value of significance was 0.000 and the sign < α (0.000 < 0.05). Mechanics got the highest increase in which the mean score was increased from 7.78 (pretest) to 13.33 (posttest). It can be said that teacher’s indirect feedback can be used as an alternative ways in teaching writing in order to improve students’ descriptive writing ability.

Keywords: indirect feedback, teaching writing, writing ability.