Effects of Teaching Writing through Integrated Skills on Students Writing Performance: At Sekela Secondary School Grade Eleven in Focus
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Abstract
Currently the purpose of teaching writing through integrated skills in rising writing ability needs attention. Teaching writing through integrated skills need not only the writer a feel for look at the integrated skills based learning but also the basis for writing. Therefore it was an endeavor to study the effects of teaching writing through integrated skills on students writing performance. To this end, two grade eleven intact sections of Sekela secondary school students took part in the study based on a quasi-experimental pre-posttest design. Pre and posttest were administered before and after the treatments. Independent and paired sample t-tests were used to analyze the students' pre-test and the posttest scores using SPSS version 20. The results showed that teaching writing through integrated skills practiced in the classroom increased students writing performance. Thus, teaching writing through integrated skills affects positively the students' writing performance. The significant improvement of the experimental group students' writing performance due to teaching writing through integrated skills proved the value of the intervention. It is understood that teaching writing through conventional needed be replaced by teaching writing through integrated skills to enhance students writing performance.