BOLSTERING WRITING CAPABILITY THROUGH HANDY VOCAB

Abstract

This study aimed to: 1) enhance student writing capabilities, 2) promote students’ self‑study, and 3) investigate students’ satisfactions toward handy vocab. Research instruments were: 1) achievement tests administered as a Pre-test and a Post-test, 2) a questionnaire 3) a lesson plan, 4) a lecturer journal entry, 5) student journal entries, 6) observations, and 7) in‑depth interviews. To analyze the data, paired samples statistics, a t-test, the frequency and mean were used. Results revealed that: 1) student writing capabilities had developed since the average student Post-test scores significantly increased to 12.98 from an average pretest score of 9.57, 2) the mean score of the questionnaire was 4.24, indicating a high level of students’ satisfactions with the learning, and 3) handy vocab promoted students’ self-study which reflected in its mean satisfaction score of 4.27.