The effect of Project Based Learning on Writing Business Letters

Yulia Rizki Ramadhani,1 and Abdul Rahman Suleman Siregar2

1English Department, University of Graha Nusantara, Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia 2Department of Development Economics, University of Graha Nusantara, Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia yuliadamanik@dosen.ugn.ac.id, ragilzhillan@gmail.com

Keywords:        projec-based learning method, business letter, writing skill

Abstract:           This research investigated the implementation of the use of PBL in improving the students’ writing ability. The objectives of this research was to find out whether there is a significant effect of using PBL toward writing ability or not. This research was carried out on the third semester students of Development Economics Department. The writer employed a quasi-experimental design. This research assigned one groups consists of 20 students. Based on the result of research the mean score of post test  (79.80) was higher than the pre test (69.50). the paired t-test calculation shows the result of paired sample test (0.000 < 0.05) in which there is a significant difference between pre-test and post-test scores after having treatments. In addition, the results suggest that teaching through PBL gives positive effects on students’ ability in writing business letters.

A Comparative Study Between Teaching Reading Comprehension Of Narrative Text By Using The Herringbone Technique (HT) And The Context Clues Strategy

Yulia Rizki Ramadhani1, Yuswin Harputra2

1(Postgraduate Program of Universities HKBP Nommensen, Pematangsiantar, Indonesia)

2(Universitas Graha Nusantara Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia)

Abstract:

This paper is about to find out whether there is a significant difference between teaching reading comprehension of narrative text by using the Herringbone Technique (HT) and the Context clues strategy to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan or not. And the number of sample in this research is 70 students. They are divided into 35 students who are taught by using the Herringbone Technique and 35  students are taught by using the Context clues strategyy.In order to get the needed data, the writer applies the library and field research. And as the instrument for collecting the data from the field the writer uses the written test. After getting the data, the next step which is done by the writer is analyzing it by using the  statistical analysis which is the formulation of t-test.

Keywords:reading comprehension, herringbone technique, context clues strategy

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