Applying Quantum Teaching to Enhance Freshmen's Writing Skill (A Study at Department of English Language Education in UIN Ar Raniry)

This study was designed due to a consideration that writing is a difficult skill to be mastered by freshmen and using a right teaching method is important to improve their writing skills. The study investigated the effect of Quantum Teaching for freshmen at English Department of UIN Ar Raniry in Writing 1 and analyzed the most apparent improvement in freshmen writing skill after implementing Quantum Teaching. The study was conducted at UIN Ar Raniry, involving 23 students of unit 1 undertaking Writing 1 course. Using a quantitative approach and a pre experimental research design, the study collected the data through pre-test, post-test, and questionnaires. In the pre experimental teaching, the researcher taught descriptive and recount text. The data analysis showed that tscore of descriptive and recount text were 9.71 and 7.45 as well as ttable at significant level of α = 0.05 was1.72. Thus, the data can be stated that tscore was higher than ttable (9.71 >1.72) and (7.45 >1.72). The data showed that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. This means that Quantum Teaching improves freshmen’s writing skills. In addition, based on freshmen’s responses in questionnaires, they considered that Quantum Teaching is an effective and suitable method in learning Writing 1. This finding conform the previous research findings that Quantum Teaching can help freshmen to enhance freshmen’s writing skill.

Keywords: Descriptive Text, Freshmen, Quantum Teaching, Recount Text, Writing Skill