Increasing Students Writing Skill to Construct Sentences Through Competitive Writing Challenge Game

Abstract

The objective of this research is to examine two cases; (1) Competitive Writing Challenge game can increase students writing skill, (2) aspects of games that affect Competitive Writing Challenge games. This research applied quantitative and qualitative research that examined increasing students writing skill to construct sentences and found out the aspects of game. This research is kind of research of quasi experimental design and purposive sampling to collect data from the population. There were 28 students who participated as a sample and this research was held at UPT SPF SD Inpres Tamalanrea 6 Makassar. The results of this research indicate that there is an increase in students writing skill through Competitive Writing Challenge game. There were 5 aspects of game that affect the improvement of students writing when applying Competitive Writing Challenge game, namely, Physical or motor development, Cognitive or Thinking skill, Language, Emotion and Socialization. The results of this research can be a reflection for students to further increase their ability to construct sentences based on correct grammatical formulas.