scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUP WORK DISCUSSION TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: THE CASE OF SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 1 TEGOWANU

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wikaning Tiyas Pamularsih
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Writing Students ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Test Computation ◽  
The Mean

Teaching English focuses on four language skills namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students are expected to master those four language skills. The main purpose of English teaching is to improve the students’ skills in using the language in real communication. One of the productive skills that students have to be improved is writing. In writing process, the students are expected to write grammatically, express their idea, and make the conclusion as the steps to develop rhetorical devices in the written form. The teaching writing using group work discussion gave better result as indicated by the significant statistical t-test computation that the t-obtained is higher than t-table. It is showed by looking at t-obtained is higher than t-table. The result of t-obtained is 11, 89 through the level of significant (5%). Then, the result of t-table is 1, 49. It means that the number of t-obtained is higher than t-table. The writer also concludes that the mean score of students’ ability using group work discussion is 9, 05 and without using group work discussion is 4, 85. It means that group work discussion is effective to teach descriptive text to the seventh grade students of Junior High School.

scholarly journals The use of literacy approach to teach writing of descriptive text at the seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Ngebel

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Tanti Yuliani
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Teaching Learning

The main purpose of teaching learning English in Junior High School to develop the students’ competence and knowledge in four language skills, Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing. One of the difficult skills is writing. In this research are describe how are the uses, problems, and solutions of the use of Literacy Approach to Teach Writing of Descriptive Text At The Seventh Grade Students of SMPN 1 Ngebel.  Literacy approach is one of the approaches used to teach writing especially in descriptive text because Literacy approach is the ability to read and write. There are some step of teaching writing, they are planning, composing, and revising. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. Participant/Informant of the research are the English teacher and the seventh grade students of SMPN I Ngebel Ponorogo. This research uses purposive sampling technique. The techniques which are used to collect the data are observation, interview, and documentation. Techniques of the data analysis are data reduction, data display and drawing conclusions. The result of the analyzing data indicates that the uses of literacy approach in teaching writing of descriptive text are divided into two steps. The first is preparation steps and the second is learning process. The learning process uses literacy approach includes introduce and giving explanation the descriptive text, give the modal of the descriptive text and have text to analyze, make group work to discussion the students’ ideas, give the chance to make students’ own product and also checking the students’ understanding about the material. Besides, the problem of the use literacy approach in writing of descriptive text are sometimes the students are noisy in the classroom and their vocabulary are still low. The students feel afraid to deliver their opinion and ideas in teaching and learning process. The solution of the use literacy approach in writing of descriptive are the students must make group work of the students’ worksheet, Teacher controls the students and gives scores for students.

scholarly journals The use of literacy approach to teach writing of descriptive text at the seventh grade students Of SMPN 1 Ngebel

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Tanti Yuliani
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p>The main purpose of teaching learning English in Junior High School to develop the students’ competence and knowledge in four language skills, Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing. One of the difficult skills is writing. In this research are describe how are the uses, problems, and solutions of the use of Literacy Approach to Teach Writing of Descriptive Text At The Seventh Grade Students of SMPN 1 Ngebel in Schooling Years 2013/2014.  Literacy approach is one of the approaches used to teach writing especially in descriptive text because Literacy approach is the ability to read and write. There are some step of teaching writing, they are planning, composing, and revising. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. Participant/Informant of the research are the English teacher and the seventh grade students of SMPN I Ngebel Ponorogo. This research uses purposive sampling technique. The techniques which are used to collect the data are observation, interview, and documentation. Techniques of the data analysis are data reduction, data display and drawing conclusions. The result of the analyzing data indicates that the uses of literacy approach in teaching writing of descriptive text are divided into two steps. The first is preparation steps and the second is learning process. The learning process uses literacy approach includes introduce and giving explanation the descriptive text, give the modal of the descriptive text and have text to analyze, make group work to discussion the students’ ideas, give the chance to make students’ own product and also checking the students’ understanding about the material. Besides, the problem of the use literacy approach in writing of descriptive text are sometimes the students are noisy in the classroom and their vocabulary are still low. The students feel afraid to deliver their opinion and ideas in teaching and learning process. The solution of the use literacy approach in writing of descriptive are the students must make group work of the students’ worksheet, Teacher controls the students and gives scores for students.</p>

scholarly journals The Effect of Process Based Approach on Seventh Grade Students’ Writing Achievement

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Aditya Blangsinga ◽  
Ni Nyoman Padmadewi ◽  
Putu Adi Krisna Juniarta
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean

This study aimed at investigating the implementation of the process based approach in teaching writing in order to know its effect to the improvement of students’ writing achievement Furthermore, the quantitative method was used in this research with quasi experimental design. The subjects involved in this study were 35 Junior High School students from VII A7 class in SMP Negeri 1 Singaraja, Bali, Indonesia. The proficiency test such as pretest and post test were conducted in this study in oder to collect the data. The students were given a treatment for about eight weeks. The data obtained were analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. It was analyzed using SPSS. As the result of statistical analysis, it was found that sig 2-tailed result in the paired samples t-test wast 0.00, which was below 0.05. In terms of the mean score, it was found the mean score in the post test (80.46) was higher than the mean score in the pretest (68.59). So, it can be concluded that process based approach had a significant effect on the seventh’ grade students writing achievement.

scholarly journals THE APPLICATION OF PICTURES AND PEER ASSESSMENT FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN WRITING CLASS

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Komang Dian Puspita Candra
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
School Based ◽  
Basic Language ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Planning Action

English has four basic language skills those are listening, writing, reading and speaking. Teaching English at Junior high school is based on the school based curriculum. In competence based curriculum, students should be able to produce written texts based on certain genres, and one of them is descriptive text. Based on the observation, the ability of students in seventh grade of SMP Pemecutan Denpasar, in making descriptive text is lower than the other genres. Students feel bored in writing class and get stuck in describing something. Because of these difficulties, some efforts have been done to solve the problems. One of them is by teaching writing especially for descriptive text by using pictures and combined it with peer assessment. This study is intended to improve the ability of seventh grade students of SMP Pemecutan Denpasar in writing descriptive text. This study was designed in the form of classroom action research to 17 students that consists of two cycles and involving four steps in each cycle namely planning, action, observation and reflection. In order to collect the data, three instruments were used those are test, observation and questioner. The data were analyzed qualitative and quantitative based on rubric proposed by Brown (1994) and Nurgiyantoro (2010). The data analyses were presented in the table and chart as well as also in descriptive narrative sentences. The result of this study showed that the implementing of pictures and peer assessment could improve the ability of students in writing descriptive text. It can be seen from the mean score of students was 58 in pretest and after conducting the treatment in the first cycle the student’s mean score improved to 71 and become 77 in second cycle. There are 5 students (29,41%) who passed the KKM in pre test and there is a significant increasing in first cycle becomes 12 students (70,58%) and all students (100%) passed the KKM in second cycle. It can be inferred that the combination of pictures and peer assessment was very effective helping the students in writing a descriptive text and build their motivation in writing class.

scholarly journals TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP MULIA PRATAMA

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-239
Author(s):  
Arie Sartika Berutu ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Jontra Jusat Pangaribuan
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Percentage Improvement ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Written Form ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Main Activity

Writing is an activity to share information in written form by combining some words into sentences and into paragraphs. Many students are still confused how to write a text because they do not know the rules and they can not express their ideas into written form. One of the strategies to teach writing is Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) whose its main activity is identifying and labelling all object and activities on the pictures. The method that is used in this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subjects of this research are 25 students of Class VIII-4 of Junior High School Mulia Pratama Medan in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. Test, observation sheets, field note and questionnaire were used as the instruments for collecting the data. The result of this study showed increasing score of the students’ writing descriptive text. The result of the test showed that the students’ mean score in pre-test is 35,6 with 0% of the students got score ≥ 75, in formative test the mean score is 58,2 with 8% of the students got score ≥ 75 and in post-test the mean score is 69,5 with 24% of students got score ≥ 75. It showed that the percentage improvement of the students’ mean score from pre-test to post-test was 24%. The responses of students after being taught by using Picture Word Inductive Model are good. The students enjoyed the process of teaching and learning. It is suggested that teachers use Picture Word Inductive Model in teaching writing skill to improve the students’ skill in writing descriptive texts.

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ RESPONSE TOWARD THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MINDOMO IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE THE STUDENTS IN CIMAHI

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Annisa Novianti ◽  
Evie Kareviati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims to describe students' responses toward the implementation of Mindomo in writing description text at seventh-grade students in Cimahi. This study used descriptive qualitative methods. The participant of the study is 33 students’ junior high school in Cimahi. The result of this study showed that the implementation of Mindomo in teaching writing descriptive text gave positive responses to  81,80%. This positive response was shown with the enthusiasm of students during the learning process. Aspects of attention get the largest average score of around 24.54, which shows students are more interested in the learning process of writing using the Mindomo application. Besides, the aspect of confidence and satisfaction get the lowest score 12, it can be seen that the students are lack of confidence and have a fear of writing.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF LINE DRAWING IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 19 MATARAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Yulia Yulia
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Line Drawing ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Experimental Group

Line drawing is the draw which can be made in the board directly in the classroom or it can be prepared in certain papers before entering the classroom. The aim of this research was to investigate the use of line drawing has an effect or not in teaching English vocabulary at the seventh-grade students of junior high school. The research was conducted the first semester at the seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 19 Mataram. The population in this research was the seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 19 Mataram, in which the total number of the class were five classes and in this research just conducted in two classes. The sampling technique was cluster sampling. The total numbers of the students as sample were 62 students from two classes and each class consist of 31 students. During the period of time, the experimental group was treated by using line drawing and the control group was treated without using line drawing. The result of the research reveals that the mean score of the experimental group is 24.6 and the control group is 12.9. In the other hand, the standard deviation of the experimental group is 2.8 > 1.5 under the identification of t-test formula. It is found that the value of it is 5.62 > 0.05% and 0.01% at the degree of freedom infinitive which is 1.67 and 2.39. From this point, it can be concluded that the alternative hypothesis is accepted or the line drawing has an effect in teaching English vocabulary at the seventh-grade students of SMPN 19 Mataram.

scholarly journals THE USE OF VIDEO AS MEDIA IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 624
Author(s):  
Guswar Dwifadjrin ◽  
Mundriyah Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

Writing is one of the skills which must be mustered in learning English. However, many students het  difficulties in learning writing. The objectives of the research entitled “ The used of video as media in teaching writing descriptive text” were to found out: 1) the implementation of  the scenario in teaching English writing descriptive texts in seventh grade using video as media. 2) Students responses in learning descriptive text using video as media. In conducting this research, it was used a descriptive qualitative research design to describe the result of the research. The subject of the research was grade VII of junior high school in Padalarang, consit 20 students. The results of this study indicated that the implementation in teaching is done according to the scenario which was prepared by the researchers. The responses of the students based on the questionnaires showed that teaching learning proses using video was effective. Students had high enthusiasm, they did not feel monotonous, and they were motivated. From the result of assessment, most of the students had difficulties in writing English  because they had poor grammar, lack of vocabulary, and poor understanding of mechanics in writing. In addition, the students had less experience because they were not accustomed to using English in writing. After learning using video as media, the student could overcome their difficulties eventhough there was few students that not understand grammar use, vocabulary, and mechanics in the final project.  Keywords:        Wring skill, Descriptive Text, Video

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Realia in Writing Descriptive Text: a Case of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP N 4 Semarang

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devi Budi Wijaya ◽  
Suwandi Suwandi ◽  
Sukma Nur Ardini
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
T Test ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year

This study is based on the research which attempted to examine the effectiveness of realia in writing descriptive text by the seventh grade students. The objectives of the research were (1) to analyze and find out  the students’ ability in writing descriptive text who are taught by using realia, (2) to analyze and find out  the students’ ability in writing descriptive text who are taught without using realia, (3) also to analyze and find out whether there is significant difference between students who are taught by using realia and those taught without using realia. Quasi experimental design was used with the population of 256 seventh grade students of SMP N 4 Semarang in the academic year 2017/2018. By using purposive sampling technique, there were two classes chosen as the sample of this study; vii a and vii b. The instruments of collecting data used were tests; pre-test and post-test. After the data were collected, they were analysed using t-test. The findings were as follows: (1) the ability in writing descriptive text by the students taught using realia was good with the mean of the post-test was 80.21. (2) the ability in writing descriptive text by the students taught without using realia was adequate with the mean of the post-test was 74.44. (3) there was significant difference of the two group students. t-test 4.89 > t-table 2.00. therefore, ha was accepted that realia was effective as a media in teaching writing of descriptive text.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING FLASHCARD MEDIA FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (Study Case in the seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Sanankulon)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
Hesty Puspita Sari ◽  
Nita Sutanti ◽  
Linda Tri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
T Test ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

The aims of this research are not only to know the develop flashcard media for teaching vocabulary to the seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Sanankulon in 2018/2019 academic years but also to know the effectiveness of flashcard media for teaching vocabulary to the seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Sanankulon in 2017/2018 academic years, to know the students response toward the use of flashcard in teaching learning vocabulary to the seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Sanankulon in 2018/2019 academic years. This research is Research and Development (R&D), which used the Sugiyono’s model (2016:298) with adaptation. The data collecting through interview, questionnaire, documentation, and test. In this case, the researcher used three validators. They are validator of media and validators of material. The product user is VII F of SMPN 1 Sanankulon which consisted of 32 students. In this research, the researcher used one group pre-test and post-test experimental design to try out the product.  The result of the research showed that: 1) The result of media validation flashcard and guiding book got the average were 84,37% while the result of content of material validation 87,5%. The average for all validation was 85,41%. The score was catagorized as “very good” with interval 80% < x ≤ 100%. So, the developed flashcard media as a learning media in teaching and learning vocabulary to the seventh grade students was valid to be implemented for the seventh grade students and it can be used as media in teaching learning process especially in vocabulary mastery. 2) It proved by the result of the students’ test. The mean score of pre-test and post-test increased from 69,81 to the 94,37. It can be concluded that there was increased in mean score before and after treatment. Furthermore, Based on the result of t-test, it showed that value of t-test < t table. So, ho is rejected and ha is accepted. It can be concluded that there is significance of mean score the seventh grade students before and after treatment the product. In other word the product is proper if used in the seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Sanankulon. 3) It proved with result of questionnaire students’ response. It gained the total score 1038 then the criterion of score 1280. It accumulated on precentage that was 81,09%. It was very good category. It means, that used flashcard media in learning vocabulary is very positive for the seventh grade students. If seen in criteria of response this is absolutely agree response. So, in other word the students absolutely agree if used flashcard media in learning vocabulary.

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