Improving students’ learning by providing a graphic organizer after a multimedia document

This research is entitled “Using graphic organizer strategy in teaching writing on narrative paragraph (experimental research). Writing is a very important subject that should be learned by English learners. The students should be able to express their ideas and opinion either in the form of a sentence or paragraph. However, the researcher found that many students at the Second Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Tanah Luas could not express their ideas and develop into the paragraph. Hence, the appropriate strategy of teaching and learning is very important to help students master writing skills. This research aims to know the effect of achievement between the students who are taught writing by using graphic organizers from those taught writing in the narrative by using traditional methods. This research was experimental research and used a quasi-experimental design. The samples chosen in this research were the whole students of class VIII2 and VIII4 of SMPN 1 Tanah Luas. Class VIII2 consisted of 25 students was chosen as experimental group and class VIII4 consisted of 24 students was chosen as control group. This research was conducted in three phrases; there were pre-test, treatments and post-test. The data collection technique used in this research was test. The tests were pre-test and post-test. The researcher gave pre-test before giving treatment and post-test after giving treatment. The treatment was conducted in three meetings. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The research result and the hypothesis authentication found by using t-test formula in significant level 5% or α = 0.05 were obtained that ttest > ttable. The ttest found in this research was 3.91. Meanwhile, ttable was gotten from the list of distribution value with degree of freedom = 47, because the data not in the table, the researcher used interpolation approach and obtained = 1.67. So > = 3.91 > 1.67. It meant that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. So, graphic organizer strategy significantly affects the students’ ability in mastering writing. Kata Kunci: graphic organizer strategy, teaching and learning, writing narrative paragraph

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Performance evaluation of an interactive Web-based multimedia document system with streaming media

2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. ICME2000. Proceedings. Latest Advances in the Fast Changing World of Multimedia (Cat. No.00TH8532) ◽

10.1109/icme.2000.869550 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

H. Fahmi ◽

M. Latif ◽

A. Ghafoor ◽

P. Liu ◽

L. Hou

Keyword(s):

Performance Evaluation ◽

Streaming Media ◽

Multimedia Document ◽

Web Based

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Using Graphic Organizer as a Media in Students’ Writing Project

Scope Journal of English Language Teaching ◽

10.30998/scope.v2i02.2307 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (02) ◽

pp. 105

Author(s):

Anastasia Dewi Anggraeni ◽

Helda Jolanda Pentury

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Research Method ◽

Graphic Organizers ◽

Graphic Organizer ◽

Writing Project ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Writing Skill ◽

Creative Media

<p>“Picture tells a thousand words“. It is important that teachers help the students organize their writing which they are learning to build and enhance their writing skill. Graphic organizer is a creative great media for comparing and contrasing text or story and can easily be applied to any kind of topic to help the students understand the differences between the texts or stories. Beside that aim, graphic organizer also helps the students to organize their writing skill and enhance their writing skill well. Graphic organizer is considered to enhance student’s writing skill, also expresses the students creativity by using the all kind of text, image and graphics, so the research employing observation and carried by descriptive research method. By implementing the strategy of using graphic organizer in students’s writing project, teacher will hopefully get the insight of using creative media to enhance students’ writing skill.</p><p> </p>Key words: graphic organizers; media, writing

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