Effects of Teaching Writing through Integrated Skills on Students Writing Perception: at Sekela Secondary School Grade Eleven in Focus

Abstract

The main purpose for using teaching writing through integrated skills as the focal issue to conduct this research was activated from the established use of integrated skills way to salivate students’ dissatisfaction of writing skills in a class. Thus, this study was to see the effect of teaching writing through integrated skills on students’ writing perception. Experimental design was used in order to examine the cause-effect relationship between the independent variable and dependent variable. Pre-and post-study parts of the questionnaire were used to collect data to see the effect of using teaching writing through integrated skills on students’ writing perception. Data on experimental group students’ reflection to their involvement in the intervention of teaching writing through integrated skills on students writing perception was gathered by a questionnaire that was employed before and after the study. The data gathered through this instrument was analyzed quantitatively. Comprehensive sampling was used to get data from the subjects of experimental and control group. Pre-questionnaire parts were administered immediately after sorting students in control and experimental groups. The results of pre-experiment parts of the questionnaire revealed that there was no significant change in the writing perception between the control and experimental groups prior to the intervention.  However, the results of the post-study parts of the questionnaire demonstrated that there was a statistically significant difference between the control and experimental groups. From the entire findings, it was concluded that teaching writing through integrated skills resulted on favorable perception of students’ writing skills. The significant improvement of the experimental group students’ writing performance due to teaching writing through integrated skills proved the value of the intervention. It is understood that teaching writing through conventional needed be replaced by teaching writing through integrated skills to enhance students writing perception.