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ASSIGNMENTS
(A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY AT EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2
MAJALAYA)
A RESEARCH PAPER
“Sarjana Pendidikan”
FKIP-UNSIKA
By:
WAHYU NURLAILA
NPM: 1510631060172
2018
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
C. Research Question
Based on the Background and limitation of the problem above, then
the issue raised in this research is as follows:
1. How does teacher give feedback for students’ written assignments?
CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Concept of Teaching Writing
1. Definition of Teaching writing
Writing is one of four language skills besides listening, speaking
and reading in teaching English. Writing is a complex process, which
means that in writing students must consider many things to be able to
make good and correct writing. Haris (1997) argues that students can use
writing to express their ideas, reality, points of view and opinions. In the
writing process, students need to have enough ideas, arrange them well
and express them according to their desired style (as cited in Lailatul
Husna, 2013)
Writing is one of the activities to communicate that needs to be
encouraged so that it can continue to develop during learner language
learning. Related to the explanation above, myles (2002: 1) says:
The ability to write well is not a naturally
acquired skill; it is usually learned or culturally
transmitted as a set of practices in formal
instructional settings or other environments. Writing
skills must be practiced and learned through
experience.
Based on the ideas above, the researcher concludes that writing is a
process of thinking, deals with words followed by physical actions.
Practice is needed to communicate through writing from the author to the
reader. In writing activities, the writer must follow the rules of grammar,
spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.
Teaching writing is not an easy task. The teacher must be able to
plan what is taught in a particular curriculum and must be relevant. In
addition, the teacher is also tasked with choosing the approach that best
suits the needs of students, therefore the teacher must be able to choose
and develop teaching materials which, according to him are suitable for
use in teaching so that the learning process is effective and in accordance
with the objectives. In learning to write the teacher is also considered
very responsible for creating an environment that can motivate and is
tasked with facilitating students in writing learning activities. One of
them is to build good interactions with students in the form of giving
feedback on the results of student writing because it will help students to
improve student writing and motivate students to be able to make better
writers.
2. Steps of writing process
Teaching writing is often considered more complicated than
teaching other language skills. Writing lessons not only encourage
students to hold pens and we expect students to immediately writing
easily on paper. Because, in writing, several strategies must be done to
be able to produce good writing. Writing lessons require a teacher to be
involved in various writing activities such as helping students to get
ideas, revise, edit and others in the writing process. Below is a
consideration involved in teaching writing.
(Tribble, 1996 as cited in Badger, R. a.,2000) suggests that most of
the writing tasks can be completed by a sequence of activities that focus
on the writing process as follows:
a. Pre-writing. It includes discussion of the topic, model of
compositions, brainstorming on the topic, etc. to generate students’
ideas and collect information related to the topic.
b. Composing/drafting. Students now write a first complete draft in
sentence and paragraph form, but again without worrying about
grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
c. Revising. This is in pair or group feedback sessions. Here students
ask questions for clarification or suggestions. After this, they work
alone to reorganize, revise, and rewrite their draft.
d. Editing. Students check their second draft for accuracy. This time,
they concentrate on checking that their ideas are clearly organized
and have included enough details. When content and organization
seem fine, students then focus on grammar, punctuation, and
spelling.
3. Writing Assignment
Writing assignments are very important for students because
they will provide opportunities for students to engage with existing
information about a topic and students can make analysis, reflection,
observation, or synthesis and produce quality writing. In addition, the
quality of assignments also affects the results of student writing
(Storms, Riazantseva, and Gentile as cited in Gardner, 2008)
A 2001 NAEP International Writing Project study, as cited in
Gardner, (2008) drew similar conclusions about the writing assignments
and the success of student writers. The study shows that writing
assignments with student writing are very influential. In the study, they
found some of the most effective characteristics of writing assignments
that must be considered, namely;
a. The content and scope. In this case students are asked to focus more
on their critical thinking and can interact with the text.
b. The organization and development. Tasks must be able to provide
or provide a structure or scaffold that can help the student's writing
process.
c. Provide balanced support and direction so students can be involved
in the task completion process.
B. Feedback
1. Definition of Feedback
There are many definition of feedback. According to Hattie &
Timperley, (2007) Feedback is generally interpreted as information
provided to students regarding the tasks they are working on and those
concerned with improving student performance or their understanding.
Students can use information from feedback to: confirm whether their
assignments are correct, add what is missing from their assignments,
adjust how their assignments will continue (Butler & Winne, 1995 as cited
in Timperley, 2007)
From those two definitions by some expert, we can conclude that
feedback is information provided by other people such as teachers,
colleagues, books, parents, etc. Feedback is also given if it is about aspects
of a person's performance or understanding. A teacher can provide
corrective information, colleagues can provide alternative strategies, books
can provide information to clarify ideas and parents can provide
encouragement. Such feedback is very important in a person's performance
process.
Feedback plays an important role in the learning process of
students because it can give students broader insights about what they
have not or have achieved in their assignments. The importance of
providing feedback to students during the learning process stems from the
fact that feedback is very influential on the results of student performance
and is seen from the difference between expected results and actual results.
In addition, feedback can also encourage students to be better and be able
to produce better quality of writing.
2. Kinds of feedback
a. Written feedback and Oral Feedback
There are two considerations mentioned by researchers
about written feedback. According to Hyland and Hyland's point of
views, written feedback can be considered as something that
doesn't pay too much attention to student opinions and only pays
attention to / uses the requirements of the teacher for students to
meet the expectations needed to achieve the goal of writing.
Sommers, on the other hand, provides another explanation that is
written feedback should be considered as a means to help students
write effectively rather than being fixated by the teacher's own
rules which aim to satisfy themselves and think that the most
important thing is that they have done their job.
From these considerations, it is clear that the quality of
feedback provided by the teacher is one of the most important
factors in improving student writing. Careful written feedback
from the teacher can create a motive for revising. In addition,
written feedback from the teacher not only shows students'
mistakes, but also can help students monitor their own progress
and identify certain parts to be developed further. Teacher feedback
means being able to help and improve students' independent
learning skills.
From some of the above discussions the researcher took the
conclusion that good feedback must have commented on all
aspects of the student's text. Including content, rhetorical structure,
grammar and mechanics. In addition, the teacher's written feedback
must be clear and concrete to assist students in revising. Better
feedback means that any errors in writing related to language and
content must be identified and corrected.
Related to verbal feedback, lightbrown and spada mention
six feedbacks that may be in the learning process in the classroom.
1. Explicit corrections, namely corrections made openly in
accordance with existing rules. The teacher gives
feedback openly because the pronunciation errors that
students make are for example, ‘oh, you mean .... 'or‘
you have to write or say ...'.
2. Recast, which is a process that involves the way the
teacher reformats the state (or whatever) that exists as
in the whole or part of a student's sentence, reducing the
mistakes made by students. In this case we can use ‘you
mean’, use this word ’, or ‘you should say ….’.
3. Request clarification, namely the teacher asks for
clarification of the sentence the students are using but
the teacher does not understand it. The teacher can use
several phrases such as ‘Pardon me...’ including ways to
request repetitions of errors or sentences that are less
clear and difficult to understand. Or it could be with
‘what do you mean by...?
For example:
T: How often do you wash your clothes?
S: Fourteen.
T: Excuse me. (Clarification request)
S: Fourteen.
T: Fourteen what? (Clarification request)
S: Fourteen for a week.
T: Fourteen times a week? (Recast)
S: Yes.
4. Metalinguistic feedback. Namely, feedback in the form
of comments, information, or questions relating to the
formation of a good word of students, without explicitly
providing correct corrections in accordance with the
provisions. Metalinguistic comments generally indicate
that errors in a particular place can be done by way of,
for example, ‘can you find your error? '.
5. Elicitation. That is, referring to at least 3 techniques that
the teacher directly uses to obtain the correct form of
students.
a. Elicit completion of the sentence, such as ‘It is a ...
b. Use question, such as 'How do we say X in English?'
c. Ask the students to reformulate the sentence.
6. Repetition is a repetition to the teacher's repetition to
the students' error.
For example:
S: He is in the bathroom.
T: Bathroom? The bedroom. He is in the bedroom.
b. Direct Feedback and Indirect Feedback
1. Direct feedback
Direct feedback is feedback that can also be called: direct
correction (Chandler, 2003), corrective feedback (Lalande,
1982), form-focused feedback / correction (Fazio, 2001) and
Overt correction (Lee, 2004) . According to Ferris (2002),
direct feedback refers to teachers who provide correct linguistic
forms for students (eg words, morphemes, phrases, rewritten
sentences, deleted words or morphemes [s]).
2. Indirect feedback
Indirect feedback is where when a teacher explicitly shows
the mistakes made by students and gives a brief explanation
without correcting it again and submits it to students to be
corrected by themselves.
Indirect feedback can be referred to as error location
(Ferris, 2002). The teacher simply locates an error by circling
it, underlining it (Lee, 2004), highlighting it, or putting a
checkmark in the margin. This feedback is more complicated in
that students correct their errors by identifying them and use
their acquired knowledge to self-correct such errors.
3. Function of feedback
Providing feedback to students will help improve their writing
achievement. When giving feedback, the teacher will not be disturbed
because the teacher does not have to explain the material from
beginning to end. He just needs to show where the mistakes are and
give specific suggestions related to their writing.
In addition, feedback given by the teacher is one of the most
important factors in improving student writing. This expects students
to be able to write and can produce writing that in the process there is a
minimum of errors and maximum clarity besides that students can get
advice to improve their writing in the future. In addition, feedback
from the teacher can create a teacher to be able to revise without a lot
of comments and students will revise their assignments in a way that is
consistent, narrow, and predictable way (N. Sommers, Op. Cit., P.
233). most important is that teacher feedback not only shows students'
writing strengths and weaknesses but can also help students monitor
their own progress and identify specific language areas to be
developed further.
However, the teacher must pay attention that feedback can indeed
help students but students also need a lot of encouragement to use
feedback to reflect on their work. Feedback will be useful only if
students can do something with the feedback that has been given.
4. Purpose of feedback
Lewis (2002) states that feedback is like the way of telling the
students about the progress they are making and facilitating them in
the area of improvement. Further, Lewis has listed some of the
research-based purposes that have been suggested for giving feedback
in the language class. Some of the purposes are motivational and some
have to do with providing students with information. Here are the
details.
a. Feedback provides information for teachers and students.
b. Feedback provides students with advice about learning
c. Feedback provides students with language input
d. Feedback is a form of motivation
e. Feedback can lead students toward autonomy
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2. Research Methods
In order to get data as good as possible, the researcher uses
descriptive study. The purpose of descriptive research is to describe a
phenomenon and its characteristics. This research is more important
than what or why something happened (Nassaji, 2015). This method is
used to describe vaariables rather than test a predicted relationship
between variables. Then, Mack et.al (2005: 3) adds that descriptive
research is used to explore phenomena by conducting interviews, focus
group discussions and participants, in short, this research is more
flexible.
B. The Participants
This study will conduct at junior high school 2 majalaya. The
researcher chose this junior high school to be investigated because later the
research that will be conducted focuses on the junior high school level
besides that according to the Ministry of National Education junior high
school students are in the literacy level of functional so at this level
students' writing skills must be paid more attention. therefore, I was
interested in examining how the teacher provided feedback in the writing
of the students in the junior high school and how the students perceived
the way the teacher gave feedback and how influential the results of their
writing were. in addition, the location of the SMP 2 Majalaya is also quite
strategic to be reached by researchers. This research especially concern in
the eighth grade students. This class may consist of 40 students and consist
of male and female. The subjects of this study are an English teacher and
the students of writing class. There are two classes, i.e. Class A and Class
B. the class of 2B will take as the sample because the students of the class
come from different levels and backgrounds.
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