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As it has become one of the favorite destinations to get undergraduate degree of English education from the English Education Department, the university and faculty
provide various facilities to support and improve the teaching and learning quality in order that its graduates are able to meet the demands of the stakeholders. At present,
all classrooms are supported by LCDs and internet connections. To access the internet easily, the university provides hotspots and some computer laboratories with
high-speed internet access in the hope that these facilities can fulfill students’ need to improve not only the learning processes but also their learning achievement.
An important effort has been carried out by the English Education Department. Since the academic year of 20092010, the students have to take a computer lecture
held in the first semester in order to equip and enrich the students’ ability in using some computer programs. Among the programs taught are Microsoft Office and
Internet Access. Considering that background, an experiment will be conducted to see which
materials, internet or textbook, yield a better improvement in writing performance viewed from students’ creativity.
B. Problem Identification
Based on the above background, the identified problems are: 1.
There are some factors that contribute toward students’ writing ability, such as creativity and given materials;
2. Every student has different level of creativity that affects his or her learning
achievement especially in writing;
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3. Depending on his or her level of creativity, every student has different
response towards the given materials in every teaching-learning process; 4.
Depending on the level of creativity, some students prefer learning given materials from either internet or textbooks.
C. Problem Limitation
Since it is impossible to have a wide variety of problems, it is necessary to limit the problems so this research will be more accurate, effective, and understandable.
Therefore, the problem limitations of this research are as follows: 1.
Teaching materials used in this research are textbooks and internet. Both teaching materials will be applied in teaching writing to the fourth
semester students of English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in the Academic
Year of 20092010. The focus is how to write an argumentative essay correctly and tactfully. The selection of genre is based on some
considerations. First, according to the curriculum of English Department, the genre selected is in line with the time of the research. Second, the
genre selected can be applied by using both textbook and internet materials.
2. The students’ learning achievement in this research is limited to the
writing achievement which is measured by writing test. 3.
Creativity levels are obtained from the creativity test adapted from Munandar’s creativity test. The creativity levels are then classified into
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two different groups. The first group is the students having high creativity and the second one is the students having low creativity. The students are
considered having high creativity if their creativity scores are higher than the median score. On the other hand, if the students’ creativity scores are
lower than the median scores, they are categorized having the low creativity.
D. Problem Statement
