THE EFFECTS OF THE EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT TEACHING OF ENGLISH PHRASES ON STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL

This research reveals the effects of the explicit and implicit teaching instruction on student’s writing skill. It was held at Pamulang University, Tangerang. 50 students were taken from English Department, Faculty of letters who are enrolled in writing class. The students were assigned to the experimental group which was given the explicit teaching instruction and another class comparison group which was given the implicit teaching instruction. The quantitative method and t-test were used to analyze the data. Further, the result of the pre-test and the post test of two groups were compared. Based on the outcomes of the statistical analysis, it was revealed that the means of the experiment group was higher than the comparison group, meaning the explicit instruction had more significant effect than the implicit instruction. This study found that the explicit teaching of English phrases was more effective than the implicit teaching of English phrases on students’ writing skill. Thus, the explicit could make the students’ awareness and consciousness in learning grammatical rules to improve their writing skill. Key words: Explicit, implicit, experimental, comparison, phrase