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The Students' Achievement in Essay Writing by Portofolio Assessment: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
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Writing is one of the important skills in English. However, writing is considered difficult for students in Indonesia. Therefore students have a fairly low ability to write essays. This study aims to analyze students’ achievement in writing essays using portfolio assessment. This study focused on three objectives: 1. To find out students’ achievement in essay writing using portfolio assessment, 2. To find out teacher problems when teaching essay writing using portfolio assessment. This research used descriptive qualitative to collect data the researchers carried out document analysis in the form of a collection of three tasks from each student. Students’ achievement in writing essays using portfolio assessment increased, this can be seen from the process when students write essays using portfolios. From the results that have been analyzed, students in the first task got a mean score of 70.09% in the "fairly good" category, while in the second task students got a mean score of 76.27% in the "good" category and in the third task students got a mean score of 81.68% in the "good" category. Students are said to experience increased because in the essay writing process they become better at each task, in the aspects of content, organization, vocabulary, language and mechanics. Then, researchers found several problems faced by teachers when teaching essay writing using portfolio assessment.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15548/rielt.v1i1.9854
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