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The Guided Self-Correction to Improve Indonesian EFL Students’ Writing Achievement

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The current research aimed to identify the effect of the guided self-correction on students’ writing achievement. The study employed a quantitative design. The subject was 1 class which consisted of 31 students. This research used a purposive sampling method. The data were collected through the pre-test and post-test in the form of writing tests. The data from both pre and the post-tests were compared using SPSS 25.0 The results showed there was a statistically significant difference of students’ writing achievement when the students taught by guided self-correction with the significant level, 0.03. That is, when the students provided with the guided self-correction had better writing achievement. Therefore, the guided self-correction had statistically significant effects on the students’ descriptive writing achievement. The findings suggest that the guided could be implemented to facilitate students to improve their descriptive writing achievement.

A Guided Writing Technique based on Project-Based Learning to Improve Students’ Descriptive Text Writing

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This study aims to find out whether the Guided Writing technique based on Project-based Learning could improve the students’ descriptive text writing. The research was a quantitative research. The design was one-group pretest-posttest design where there was only one group as the experimental class. The study was done in SMPN 1 Dente Teladas Grade VII, consisting of 32 students. There was a total of six meetings, which were 1 meeting for pretest, 4 meetings for the treatment, and 1 meeting for the posttest. The data was collected from a writing test and analyzed using SPSS v.25. The result shows that the Guided Writing technique based on Project-based learning could improve the students’ descriptive text writing. In conclusion, the use of Guided Writing technique is maximized when it is used based on Project-based learning, and applying the Guided Writing technique based on Project-based Learning is able to cover the weakness that the Guided Writing technique has.