The Use of Four-Square Technique to Improve Students’ Writing Ability

Munir, Munir (2021) The Use of Four-Square Technique to Improve Students’ Writing Ability. Tamaddun Life Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Budaya, 20 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2685 – 4112 (Online)

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Abstract

This study employed a quasi-experimental approach that aimed to find out the extent of the improvement students' writing ability by using the Four-Square Technique on the descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. the authors took 53 samples, 28 students as the experimental group and 25 students as the control group. The study data was obtained by giving a pre-test and post-test and analyzed by using the Dependent Sample T- Test. The result of the data showed that students' writing ability improved. It was proved from score result of tobs (16,673) which was higher than t-table (2.052) and sig. P (0.05) was higher than sig.score (0.000). Students' writing ability improve by 0.1% after using the FourSquare Technique from pre-test mean score was 65.07 and the post-test mean score was 75.14. So, it can be concluded that using Four-Square Technique can improve students' writing ability in writing a descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. By using it, students showed that they can be motivated in writing, students more easily generate and organize their ideas into a text so that students’ writing was more organized also easy to understand. Keywords: Writing, Descriptive Text, Four-Square Technique

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN Universitas Negeri Makassar > KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN
Divisions:	KOLEKSI KARYA ILMIAH UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM MENURUT FAKULTAS > KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN
Depositing User:	Pustakawan Amaluddin Zaihal
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2023 03:30
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2023 03:30
URI:	http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/29724

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