Online YouTube Instrumental Music Background: It’s Effect to Descriptive Writing Performance of Students
Subtitle: ICCCEG 2014
Publisher: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Vietnam
Language: eng
Format: Hardcopy
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9788192974224
Description: This study aimed to analyze the effect of online you tube instrumental music in the descriptive writing performance of the students. The participants of this study were the diverse students enrolled in Ed109A-Developmental Reading during summer term 2013. There were fifty students enrolled in Ed109. So twenty five(25) students in control group and twenty(25) students in experimental group. The control group students learned the lesson in descriptive writing through traditional method lecture while the experimental group students learned the descriptive writing lesson through online you tube instrumental music background. Both control and experimental group students have the same evaluation writing skills using rubrics as the criteria of analyzing the writing performance of the students. The method used in this study was the one-shot design for control and experimental group. Only post-test evaluation through descriptive writing was given to the students after the discussion of the lesson. Both groups were tested for their level of descriptive writing performance in terms of content and mechanics. The result showed that the respondents in the experimental group have shown an improvement of their descriptive writing in terms of content and mechanics compared to the control group. The findings reveal that there was a significant difference between performance level of the students in the control and experimental groups. This implies that teachers should consider online YouTube instrumental background music as a tool to enhance the paragraph writing skill of the students.