Developing Intercultural Language Learning (ILL) model to teach writing skills at Indonesian private universities

Abstract

This study was aimed at developing an intercultural language learning (ILL) model and finding out its effectiveness to increase students’ writing skills. The kind of this study was procedural research (R&D) design. This study was preceded with the development phases and continued by field-testing. The field-testing was conducted by using a quasi-experimental method to know the effectiveness of the developed learning model. The sample included 64 students. The students were divided into two groups and each group consisted of 32 students. One group was the experimental group taught by suing the ILL model and the other group was the control group taught by implementing the conventional learning model. The mean score of students taught by ILL model was 80.34 and those taught by conventional one was 69.97. The data were defined as normal and homogeneous data because the value of sig. was higher than sig. level 0.05. Based on the ANOVA test, the value of sig. (0,000) was lower than the sig. level 0.05. It means there is a significantly different achievement of students taught using an ILL model rather than the conventional learning model. The result informed ILL model was more effective than the conventional one in the teaching of writing skills.

The Interference of Indonesian on English Second Language Writing

“…The data also revealed that some of the participants were not able to produce a full sentence. It is in line with Haerazi and Irawan (2020b) who state writing skills are uneasy for students who learn English as a foreign language. Based on this result, twenty out of the 106 sentences were not complete sentences.…”

What Lies Behind the Students’ Need in English for Specific Purposes: A Reflection of Needs Analysis

“…It means that the students have high motivation to have more activities dealing with the written texts that can be accessed and implemented in their daily communication. It is in line with Haerazi, Prayati, and Vikasari (2019) who state motivation plays an important role to acquire language skills. In addition, students expect to have reading activities motivating themselves which is effected by the techniques in teaching EFL reading (Cahyono & Widiati, 2006;Hadi, 2020).…”

The Effect of Practice Methods on the Ability of Writing Text Complex Procedures of Eleventh Grade Students of Swasta Swadaya Hamparan Perak Senior High School Academic Year 2020-2021

“…From Tarigan's opinion, that the ability to write for students is very important, but teaching writing in schools is often not balanced with language teaching, so that writing skills are not optimal. Language skills are usually only emphasized on linguistic knowledge and lack of training so that students' writing results are not good, it can be seen from the many choices of inaccurate words, ineffective sentences, difficulty expressing ideas, difficulty making sentences, and being unable to develop ideas regularly and systematically [5]- [7]. One of the various types of text is complex procedure text.…”