learning.
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Lastly, the study, conducted by Ferris as cited in Purnawarman shows that
students’ success in revising their essays is greatly influenced by the feedback indirectly given by the teacher.
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Based on the preceding studies above, the writer believed that teacher indirect feedback could help students solve the problems in writing discussion text. Thus,
from all the explanation above, the writer conducted research on the title: Improving Students Discussion Text Writing Skills through Teacher Indirect Feedback
Technique.
B. Identification of the Problem
Based on the background above, the identified problems were: 1.
Students were hard to finish the writing tasks given by the teacher in a short time.
2. Students preferred talking and joking with their peers than showing their
effort to do the task given by the teacher. 3.
Students had not yet interested in writing. 4.
The teacher had not yet found appropriate techniques to improve students writing skills.
5. The teacher found it difficult to give students feedback whenever she
assessed their work. 6.
The teacher only focused on scoring, but set aside feedback.
C. Limitation of the Research
This study was focused on the improvement on students’ writing of discussion
text by applying teacher indirect feedback technique in the class of XII IPA 4 at SMAN 8 Kota Tangerang Selatan, Banten.
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J. Chandler, The efficacy of various kinds of error feedback for improvement in the accuracy and fluency of L2 student writing, Journal of Second Language Writing, 12, 2003, p. 293.
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Pupung Purnawarman, “Impacts of Different Types of Teacher Corrective Feedback in Reducing Grammatical Errors on ESLEFL Students’ Writing”, Dissertation in Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, Virginia, 2011, p. 28, published.
D. Formulation of the Research
Based on the research focus above, the questions of the research formulated was “Does teacher indirect feedback improve students of XII IPA 4’s writing skills of
discussion text? ”
E. Objective of the Research
The objective of this research was to find out whether teacher indirect feedback improve students
of XII IPA 4’s writing skills of discussion texts.
F. Significance of the Research
Some significances of this research, not only theoretically but also practically, go to:
1. Teacher, it helps the English teacher to solve the problems in teaching
writing of discussion text, to choose appropriate technique in teaching writing discussion text, and also to improve students skills in writing,
especially in writing of discussion text. 2.
Students, it helps them to improve their writing skills, to achieve standard minimum score at least, and to give them clear reasons about their
improvement. 3.
SMAN 8 Kota Tangerang Selatan, it can be beneficial regarding to improve the education quality.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter discusses definition of discussion text, purpose of discussion text, generic structure of discussion text, language features of discussion text, points to
note in writing discussion text, definition of teacher feedback, indirect feedback, benefits of teacher indirect feedback, how to give indirect feedback, procedure in
applying teacher indirect feedback technique in teaching discussion text writing to XII IPA 4 students of SMAN 8 Kota Tangerang Selatan.
A. Discussion Text Writing
