DEVELOPING PARAGRAPH WRITING INTEGRATED WITH VERBS PHRASE THROUGH RUN BOARD GAME

Minguelita da Silva Carvalho, Sebastião Pereira, Jose A. Sarmento, Pedro da Costa

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The objectives of this study were to find out the improvement in writing skills of eighth-grade students of  Ensino Basico 3 Ciclo Cristal, Dili, in the school year 2024 and their levels in using short paragraphs through to the Run Board game. The methods used in this study were descriptive of quantitative and qualitative methods. The sample used in this study was 25 students in the eighth grade of Ensino Basico 3 Ciclo Cristal, Dili, in the school year 2024. The instruments were verbs, phrases, cards/envelopes, and pictures of my everyday activity. This test was divided into two (2) types, pre-test and post-test, and there was a treatment between them. The pre-test result shows that the eighth-grade students' writing ability only got 527 scores of 21,08. That was only categorized in seventh (7) levels. Firstly, two (2) students were categorized at good level 8%. One (1) student was categorized at a pretty good level of 4%, seventh (7) students were categorized at average level 28%, six (6) students were categorized at below-average level 24%, three (3) students were categorized at poor level 12%, five(5) students were categorized at inferior level 20% and one (1) student were categorized at bad level 4%. None of the students was rated at an excellent level. However, after the writer took action (treatment), the writer explained in detail about writing in a short paragraph, showed a picture of my everyday activity, and gave an example of Run to the board game; the result presented a different categorized level in post-test. They reached 820 scores with 32.8%. Firstly, none of the students were categorized as having a poor level. While ten (10) students were categorized at excellent level 40%, six (6) students were categorized as excellent level 24%, seven (7) students were categorized as good level 28%, and two (2) students were categorized at fairly good level 8%. Finally, the result showed that ten (10) students did better in the post-test than in the pre-test. This means that the method of teaching writing skills in short paragraphs through Run to the board game is suitable for teaching writing skills.


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