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USING PORTFOLIO TO ASSESS STUDENTS WRITING ABILITY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM (An Action Research at eight grade students of MTs Darul Hikmah)
- Bagikan:
The study aims to assess the writing ability of class VIII
students of MTs Darul Hikmah through portfolio assessment.
This study was action research that was conducted in two cycles.
There were four meetings in the first cycle and five meetings in
the second one. The subjects of the research were 20 students of
VIII MTs Darul Hikmah. The data were qualitative and
quantitative. The qualitative data were in the form of vignettes,
interview transcripts, and photos, and the quantitative data were
the students’ writing scores. The qualitative data were obtained
from the observations and interviews with the English teacher
and the students. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were obtained
by conducting a pre-test before the action and collecting the
students’ writing in every cycle. The results of this research show
that the use of portfolio assessment was proven to be able to
improve the students’ writing skills in five aspects of writing,
namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and
mechanics. They also could review their writing that made them
write better. Moreover, by comparing the means of each writing
aspect scores from pre-test to Cycle 2, the researcher found that
all of the means of each aspect scores increased. The students’
mean value gain from pre-test to Cycle 1 is 2.39 for the content,
2.72 for the organization, 5.97 for the language use, and 0.5 for
the mechanics. Meanwhile, the students’ mean value gain from
Cycle 1 to Cycle 2 is 2.2 for the content, 1.13 for the
organization, 1.13 for the vocabulary, 1.63 for the language use,
and 0.91 for the mechanics. In addition, portfolio assessment
could arouse the students’ self-confidence, interest, and
motivation.
SRI RAHAYU - Personal Name
SKRIPSI TBI 2175
420
Text
English
2022
Serang Banten
xiv + 104 hlm.; 18 x 25 cm
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