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creators_name: Utama, Jiehad Pria
title: Investigating the Use of Games in Writing Class. A
qualitative study at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Ciasem Subang in 2016- 2017 academic year
ispublished: pub
subjects: C
divisions: 88103
keywords: Writing Class, Use of Games
abstract: This thesis aims to find out whether games improve students’ writing ability, to find out whether students perceive the use of games in writing and tofind out the challenges faced by teacher when implementing games in writing class. The researcher was conducting this research in eight meetings. This study is a qualitative study with selected sampling. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaire, interview, teachers’ diary, and students’ documents. While, data were in the form of questionnaire form, interview transcript, filed note, and students writing. The result of this research show that teaching and learning process by using games is successful. There are three basics findings as follows (1) games can improve students’ writing ability, it concluded that game as media in teaching and learning could improve students writing skill. The process of implementing also gave variations in learning so that the learning would not make the students bore in the class. (2) Students perceive the use of games in writing, students’ perceptions told that applying game is one of good technique to improve students writing ability since it could help on generating idea, organizing, recalling vocabulary and grammar usage. (3) The challenges of implementing games indicate that teachers who have used games for teaching viewed challenges of implementing games effectively and current educational system as less inhibiting factors than those who have not used games for teaching.
date: 2018-02-26
date_type: completed
full_text_status: public
institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr. HAMKA
department: Sekolah Pascasarjana
thesis_type: masters
thesis_name: other
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citation:   Utama, Jiehad Pria  (2018) Investigating the Use of Games in Writing Class. A qualitative study at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Ciasem Subang in 2016- 2017 academic year.  Masters thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr. HAMKA.   
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