study and the underlying principle of autonomous and collaborative learning in e- learning, the learning strategy is investigated in three categorizations of meta-
cognitive strategy, cognitive strategy, and affective strategy out of six categorizations.
With the underlying idea of teaching grammar in writing with the use of technology, this study was conducted to investigate 1 whether web-based
grammar practice are related to grammatical competence, 2 whether web-based grammar practice are related to writing skill and 3 the contribution of web-based
grammar practice to grammatical competence and writing skill. These were investigated in mixed-method research of quantitative and qualitative research.
Testing was conducted to gain the quantitative data, while in-depth interview was conducted to gain students‟ perspective as qualitative data concerning the topics
under investigation. The English Letter students of Sanata Dharma University were taken as subject of the research since Writing 1 Course in English Letter is
the one applying
ELTGallery
.
D. Research Questions
By identifying the rationale of the research, the problem identification and the limitation of the problem, this study was conducted to find out:
1. Is there a positive relationship between web-based grammar practicein
ELTGallery
and the grammatical competence of the 1
st
semester English Letter students?
2. Is there a positive relationship between web-based grammar practice in
ELTGallery
and the writing skill of the 1
st
semester English Letter students? PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
3. What is the contribution of web-based grammar practice to the grammatical
competence and writing skill of the 1
st
semester English Letter students?
E. Research Objectives
This study aims at finding out whether students who conduct more grammar practices achieve higher grammatical competence and writing skill. Further, it
investigates whether students are able to write grammatically correct sentences after conducting grammar practices correctly in
ELTGallery
. It seeks to identify whether grammar practices provided by
ELTGallery
facilitate the students to be able to write sentences grammatically and thus lead them to improve their writing
skill. In addition, this study aims at investigating the contribution of web-based
grammar practice to students‟ grammatical competence and writing ability. It
means that this study investigates the real use or implementation of web-based grammar practice done by the students based on the learning strategies that they
apply. Therefore, this study conducted in- depth interview to gain students‟
perspective of the contribution of web-based grammar practice to their grammatical competence and writing skill.
F. Research Benefits
This study is expected to provide some benefits and contributions to English education theoretically and practically. Theoretically, this study contributes to
offer a supplementary way of teaching by implementing web-based learning. If the students‟ web-based grammar practice scores are in line with and contribute to
the students‟ scores in passage writing and writing test, it will show that web- based learning is effectively used to improve students‟ writing skills. Hence, this
study will contribute to the study of web-based learning implementation, especially
ELTGallery
. Practically, if the objective is achieved,
ELTGallery
is proved to be effective in improving students‟ writing skills. Therefore, this study shows that web-based
learning application can be used as a media to facilitate writing class. In this case, this study provides an effective instrument to assess as well as to improve
students‟ grammatical competence by using web application, which is
ELTGallery
. To sum up, this study is beneficial both for students and for teachers, as well
as educators who are interested in the subject matter. By implementing this application, teachers will be able to use the online instrument to assess students‟
grammatical competence and writing skill, while students will be able to work autonomously and collaboratively outside the class to improve their writing skills.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
Theories that are relevant to answer the problems are covered in this part. This part also discusses the conflicting theories concerning the problems. The
discussion will be divided into three main points covering the nature of writing, the nature of grammar, and the implementation of technology in education,
especially web-based learning.
A. Writing Skill
