THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION BY PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON WRITING SKILL OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SMAN) 1 KAMPAR TIMUR

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The purpose of this study is to know whether there is influence of
students’ motivation by providing feedback and their writing skill of state senior
high school ( SMA N) 1 kampartimur. From 148 students of the total population
which consisted of fifth classes, the researcher took 30 students as the sample by
using simple random sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher distributed
questionnaire to the respondents to assess their motivation in writing. The
questionnaire was based on the indicators of writing motivation which were
adopted from the school. Besides, in assessing students; writing skill, this research
conducted a written test to the students. In analyzing the data, the questionnaire
was assessed by Likert’s scale rating, and written test was measured by school
criteria. Person Product Moment Correlation Technique was used in order to
measure the correlation between the two variables which quantified the strength as
well as direction of the correlation by using SPSS 19. The result of this research
showed that the students’ motivation in writing was 63.07% while their writing
skill was 70.83% in terms of the influence of students’ motivation by providing
feedback on writing skill the researcher found that the coefficient influence in this
research WAS 0,165, it means that there is an average influence between those
variables. Based on the research findings, it could be concluded that there is a
significant influence students’ motivation by providing feedback and their writing
skill of State Senior High School 1 Kampar Timur.

Keywords: Motivation in Writing, Writing Skill, Influence

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