The Effect of Classcraft on Enhancing Grammar Performance of Adult Learners

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effect of Classcraft on enhancing grammar performance of adult learners. A quasiexperimental study employed involved 27 adult learners from graduate and postgraduate program. The participants were from beginner level and divided into Control Group (14 learners) and Treatment Group (13 learners). Data collection instruments were pre-test and post-test scores and a questionnaire. The result of Independent T-test revealed that there was statistically significance difference on the post-test scores between the Control Group and Treatment Group at significance level of 0.05 indicating that the implementation of Classcraft improved grammar performance of adult learners. The findings propose that a learning process that gives adult learners a sense of competitiveness, autonomy, recognition, competence, and relatedness can enhance adult learners' learning performance The result of the questionnaire showed that overall, adult learners have positive attitude towards the implementation of Classcraft in the class. Future studies could be conducted by combining different gamification platforms into one course to maintain an element of surprises or by applying the gamification across different level of proficiency.

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“…Begitu juga dengan guru EFL (English as a Foreign Language) biasanya menghadapi kesulitan dan tekanan dalam penulisan ilmiah, seperti sulitnya membuat paragraf yang dapat dipahami dan runtut, mengidentifikasi keterampilan yang dibutuhkan untuk keberhasilan menulis, dan menghindari kata dan frasa yang kurang efektif (Barroga & Mitoma, 2019;Dean et al, 2015;Smith-Keiling et al, 2018;Sujito et al, 2019). Namun, masalah yang mereka hadapi mungkin karena kurangnya pengetahuan atau kemahiran dalam bahasa Inggris karena mereka tidak memiliki banyak pengalaman dalam penulisan ilmiah (Anwar & Wardhono, 2019;Witari et al, 2021). Kemampuan menulis ilmiah guru menengah EFL dapat dipengaruhi oleh faktor-faktor seperti gaya menulis, motivasi, kecemasan berekspresi, pengarang, dan faktor emosional lainnya.…”