Abstract :

This current research aims to find out if there is any significant improvement in students’ writing achievement after the students are taught through the modified Problem Based Learning using Word Wall Website (WWW). This is a quasi-experimental research design that conducts a quantitative method. The students were given writing tests, namely pre-test and post-test. There are 30 students in a class. The students were given treatments using modified method of PBL. The data are statistically analyzed through paired samples t-test in SPSS version 22. The finding shows that there is a significant improvement in students’ writing achievement after the students were taught through the modified PBL. The score of post-test (72.90) is higher than pre-test (56.40) with the gain of 16.50. The t-value is 35.169 at the significant level of 0.000, which is lower than 0.05. It means, there is a significant improvement of students’ writing achievement after the treatment. Then, it is suggested for teachers to apply this modified method in teaching writing, because this is a very good choice to boost students’ writing achievement. This suggests further researchers to modify PBL with other technological media, such as video and song so that it can lead students to improve their writing achievement.

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Keywords :

Game, Modified Problem Based Learning, Technology, Word Wall Website, Writing Achievement

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