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1.4 Statements of the Problems
The problems that will be discussed in this paper are: 1 How is the writing test achievement for the students taught using old and
new information? 2 How is the writing test achievement for the students taught using jumbled
sentences? 3
Is there any significant difference in students‟ writing test achievement between the students taught using old and new information and those
who taught by using jumbled sentences?
1.5 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study can be stated as follow: 1 To describe the writing test achievement for the students taught using old
and new information. 2 To describe the writing test achievement for the students taught jumbled
sentence. 3
To investigate whether there is any significant difference in students‟ writing test achievement between the students taught using old and new
information and those who taught by using jumbled sentences.
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1.6 Significance of Study
Significance of this study will be useful, theoretically, practically and pedagogically for English learners and teachers.
Theoretically, it is expected that the result of this study can enrich the study of discourse analysis, especially in systemic functional grammar.
Practically, this research is expected in giving better way for anyone who want to write a text especially news item in order to make their text has a good
structure and understandable. Pedagogically, this study is expected to give benefit for English department
students on studying genre based writing and discourse analysis. Furthermore, it is expected that the result of this study can help the students to have more
meaningful communication in their writing text.
1.7 Outline of Research Report
This research report consists of five chapters. Those are: Chapter I present the introduction of the study. It contains the general
background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, limitation of the study, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, significance of the study, and
the outline of research report. Chapter II provides the review of related literature that discusses things
concerning the topic which presents systemic functional grammar, definition of systemic functional grammar, definition of theme and rheme, the definition of
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writing, news item text and theoretical framework of the study. Chapter III provides the method of investigation that deals with
population, sample, experimental method, and the instrument of the test for finding the validity and reliability.
Chapter IV gives the research findings and discussion of the data that covers the general finding and data analysis.
Chapter V contains conclusions and suggestion.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
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