Download PDFOpen PDF in browserAn Investigation of the Effect of Online News Items and News Paper on the Students’ Writing Outcome of EFL ContextEasyChair Preprint 88526 pages•Date: September 22, 2022AbstractThis paper aims to report the investigation of the effect of online news items on students' writing outcome of English as foreign language context. This research used quantitative methods with quasi-experimental research designs with non-equivalent groups' pretest-posttest design. Two groups which 46 students were the experimental and control groups and both groups were given with some different treatments. Those treatments were given in a balanced and intensive manner without intervention from factors beyond the researcher's control. The tests were then employed as the instrument to gain data with ANCOVA as design of analysis technique and SPSS as media to compute. The findings showed that online news items have strengthened students' writing abilities and motivated students to write related problems. The results obtained from this study proven that the P-value (0.016) <0.05 (alpha). A criterion is if the P-value <alpha (0.05) means that the hypothesis (H0) is rejected and (Ha) is accepted. There are significant differences in student grades. Therefore, it can be concluded that students taught using online news items media were better than students who only use textbook media. Keyphrases: EFL context, Online News Items, Writing Outcome, news paper
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