The Effect of Weekly Written Feedback and Writing Motivation on the Tenth Grade Students’ Writing Skill of SMAN 1 Kayutanam

Writing is one of English language abilities that should be mastered by the students nowadays. Based on the researcher’s observation, students at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Kayutanam have difficulties in writing text of recount and narrative. And that the purpose of this research was to explain the effect of Weekly Written Feedback and Writing Motivation on the Tenth Grade Students’ Writing Skill. The design of this research was quasi experimental research 2 x 2 factorial design conducted at two classes of grade X SMAN 1 Kayutanam. One class was taught through weekly written feedback X5 as Experimental Class while the other was taught through Conferencing X7 as Control Class. Cluster random sampling was used in selecting the sample. Population were 153 students. Samples were 42 students. The instrumentation of this research were writing test and motivation questionnaire. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by using t-test formula and Two-Ways ANOVA. The result of this research are (1) weekly written feedback given better result in writing skill compared with a conferencing strategy. It was proven by the result of the t-test which showed that t-observed was bigger than t-table, (2) Weekly written feedback did not give better result toward the writing skill of the students with high writing motivation in writing skill than conferencing of SMAN 1 Kayutanam. (3) Weekly written feedback did not give better result toward the writing skill of the students with low writing motivation than conferencing of SMAN 1 Kayutanam. (4) There was no interaction between both strategies and writing motivation toward students’ writing skill where Fobserved was 0,04 which less than Ftable 3,46. As conclusion, Weekly written feedback had not significant result on students’ writing skill than conferencing. And there was no interaction between teaching strategies and writing motivation on students’ writing skill.