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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
The research problems are formulated as follows: 1.
Are internet materials more effective than textbook materials to teach writing for the fourth semester students of the English Department of
Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 20092010?
2. Do the fourth semester students of the English Department of Teacher
Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 20092010, with high level of creativity have better
writing competence than those with low level of creativity? 3.
Is there an interaction effect between teaching materials and creativity to teach writing for the fourth semester students of the English Department of
Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 20092010?
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E. Objective of the Research
1. To know whether internet materials are more effective than textbook ones in
teaching writing for the fourth semester students of the English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of
Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 20092010. 2.
To know whether the fourth semester students of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in the
Academic Year of 20092010, with high level of creativity have better writing competence than those with low level of creativity?
3. To know if there is an interaction effect between teaching materials and
creativity in teaching writing for the fourth semester students of the English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah
University of Purwokerto in the Academic Year of 20092010.
F. Benefit of the Research
The research result is expected to be able to give some benefits for those who teach English especially at the English Department of Teacher Training and
Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto and for English lecturers in general because they can get a clear description about how to use the
teaching materials in teaching English effectively to students of this program in which it should be suited to their characteristics. Besides, it can lead himher how to
create an interesting and comfortable atmosphere in the classroom so that the students will not feel bored to join the learning activity.
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Meanwhile, the benefits for the students, it can serve them more comfortable and supporting situations inside the classrooms so that they will be more interested in
joining the class. Dealing with their English writing competence in learning English, they will get easier to master it by using materials taken from internet so they will be
able to increase their English achievement and writing performance. While, the benefits for readers, it will probably be used as the reference for those
who want to conduct a research in an English teaching process, especially in improving the students’ English writing competence. At least, it can be used as an
input or only a large knowledge in English teaching process. The last, it is expected so much that other researchers can utilize the result of the study on a bigger scope for
a similar research.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
