THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISCOVERY LEARNING IN IMPROVING ENGLISH WRITING SKILL OF EXTROVERTED AND INTROVERTED STUDENTS
Daniar Sofeny(1*)(1)
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Abstract
This study aimed to describe the effectiveness of discovery learning in improving
English writing skill of extroverted and introverted students which is compared with
direct instruction as the traditional learning method. In this research, the researcher
employed a quantitative research by using experimental factorial design. The
population in this research was the eleventh graders of state senior high school Sale
in academic year 2013/ 2014 and the samples were 20 students from both classes
and categories. The try out was conducted to measure validity and reliability. And
the two ways ANOVA was conducted to test the hypotheses, two –way analysis of
variance with F-test at the 5% (0.05) level of significance. The result of this study
revealed that the use of discovery learning was effective to the extroverted students
than the introverted students. In line with it, the finding indicates that the use of direct
instruction was also effective to introverted students than the extroverted students. In
other words, the result of the used of discovery learning had a bigger influence to the
extroverted students rather than introverted students.
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