The Revolutionizing Effects of Journal Writing Strategy on Students’ Writing Ability

Abstract

Writing is one of the language skills, it is observed as a complex task and one of the most difficult skills in learning English. Writing is the best way to practice language because it can be used to communicate, explore other subjects, and show students’ social identities. As explicit literacy skills are modelled through dialogue, the engagement of students needs to be considered. This research is aimed to obtain the empirical evidence about the revolutionizing effects of journal writing strategy on students’ writing ability of narrative text at Junior Secondary Schools in Ekiti South Senatorial District in Ekiti State. The researcher used quasi experimental research design which was classified into a quantitative research. The population of the research was 924 students from five schools in Ekiti South Senatorial District in Ekiti State. The sample was chosen by using purposive sampling technique which was selected into the experimental class and the control class. It consisted of 35 students in each school totaling 175 students in all. Moreover, the researcher used the pretest and the post-test as the instruments of the research. In the experimental class, the researcher taught the journal writing by using a social media Line Application in teaching writing of the narrative text. While in the controlled class, the researcher taught the students by implementing the conventional teaching technique such as asking the students to do the written exercises and answering ten reading comprehension questions based on the narrative text given. Also, the researcher collected the data of this research by following some steps, such as providing the pretest, providing the treatments while conducting the research and giving the post-test at the end of the research. The data from the research was calculated by using Microsoft Excel 2017 and then analyzed statistically by using SPSS version 23 with the significance level 0.05. Furthermore, the result showed that there was significant effects of journal writing strategy on students’ writing ability. Therefore, it could be concluded that journal writing was effective in improving students’ writing ability of narrative text. The study recommended that the use of journal writing strategy should be encouraged in teaching students’ writing ability in Junior Secondary Schools so as to enhance better writing ability of students.

Keywords: Journal, Narrative Text, Students’ Writing Ability, writing Strategy

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/96-07

Publication date: February 28^th 2023