scholarly journals Using Scrambled Pictures Media to Improve Students’ Writing Skill in Narrative Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Anfinda Mutiara Kasih ◽  
Kurniawan Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Minimum Score ◽  
Classroom Action Research

The present Classroom Action Research (CAR) initiated when the researcher found the students at the eighth-grade students of SMP Juara Pekanbaru had low writing skills. This problem could be identified from their base scores below the standard minimum score (GPA). It was 64,06. The purpose of this research was to try to develop the students’ writing skill and to know the factors that influenced the changing of students’ writing skill. This research was conducted from March up to May 2019 in two cycles consisted of ten meetings. The participants of this research were 27 students of the Andalusia class. In improving the students’ writing skill, a narrative text was used as a learning media. The instruments used in this research were writing test, interview, field note and also observation list to help understand the phenomenon. This research showed that the students got the score 72,22 in cycle 1 dan 84,49 in cycle 2, especially on organization with an increase of 4,47. It could be seen that scrambled pictures media could improve the students’ writing skill.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL BY USING STIRRED WORD AND S

EDUPEDIA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Aisiyah Furqoni Rizki ◽  
Bambang Harmanto ◽  
Niken Reti Indriastuti
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Minimum Standard ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Passing Grade

Stirred Word and Sentences is a strategy that used to improve students’ writing skill for eighth grade students of MTs. Ma’arif Sukosari. The purpose of this research was to find out how the improvement of students’ writing skill by using Stirred Word and Sentences for the eighth grade students of MTs. Ma’arif Sukosari in academic year 2017/2018. The subject of this research was students of the eighth grade class VIII B in MTs. Ma’arif Sukosari which consisted of 15 students. This research was conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR) that consisted of two cycles, in each cycle consisted of two meetings and four stages, there were: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The researcher used three instruments in this research, there were: Observation Checklist, Questionnaire and Test. Based on the result of this research, the implementation of Stirred Word and Sentences could improve students’ writing skill at the eighth grade students of MTs. Ma’arif Sukosari in academic year 2017/2018. It was seen from the result of Observation Checklist was 55 % in cycle I up to 85 % in cycle II, it meant the students was active. The questionnaire’s result showed that the students were interested in this method. It can be seen from total of questionnaire I was 66.7 % and the questionnaire II was 91.1 %. The students’ percentage who reached minimum standard of passing grade in cycle I was 53.3 % and in cycle II was 100 %, it meant this research was successful. 

scholarly journals SOLVING THE STUDENTS’ PROBLEM IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH ATTRIBUTE CHARTS STRATEGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
M. Fadhly Farhy Abbas ◽  
Shelvira Elsa Dwita
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research was based on the students’ problems in writing descriptive text, especially in terms of organizing the generic structure, determining adjective to describe people or things, and mastering vocabulary. The purposes of this research were to improve the students’ writing skill in descriptive text and to find out the factors influencing the students’ improvement through Attribute Chart strategy at grade 7.2 of SMPIT Al Birru Pekanbaru. The design of this research was Classroom Action Research. The instruments used were the writing test, observation checklist, field note, and interview. The participants involved  in this research were the students at grade 7.2 which was consisted of 16 students. The result showed that the students base score was 51.8,  and the score in cycle 1 was 70.4. It means the students’ score was improved in cycle 1. Furthermore this improvement was influenced by 4 factors. These factors were obtained based on the result of field note. Moreover, the results of field note were: students’ motivation, students’ interest, students’ exciting with the new topic, and the students’ activeness in the learning process. In conclusion, the use of Attribute Chart strategy in writing descriptive text can improve students’ writing skill at 7.2 grade of SMPIT Al Birru Pekanbaru.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH DIARY WRITING

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Rani Autila
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
English Department ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Independent Writing ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Diary Writing ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research investigated the students’ writing skill on Recount Text at Session 2016 A English Department of STKIP PGRI West Sumatera. Some of them had difficulties in organization, content, grammar, mechanic, and vocabulary. Then, they really need lecturers’ guidance in every step of their writing process. Therefore, the independent writing should be applied in each part of their writing process. As consequence, the researcher applied Diary Writing as the focus of research to solve this problem. The purpose was to find whether Diary Writing can improve students’ writing skill on Recount Text. The method of research is a classroom action research (CAR).  This research was conducted in one cycle, which has six meetings. Researcher used writing test, observation checklist, and field note, as the instruments. The findings of the research showed that the students’ writing skill of Recount Text improved through Diary Writing. The implications related to this research, the lecturers are suggested to use Diary Writing to help students to be independent and creative writer and for the next researcher to use Diary Writing in others kinds of texts.

Using Dictation Techniques to Improve the Eighth-Grade Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 35 Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Laely Vitriyati
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Listening Test ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Test Result

Dictation is an ancient technique in teaching language becoming one of interesting ways to improve the students’ listening comprehension proposed by Davis & Rinvolucri (1988). This study was aimed to solve the students’ listening comprehension achievement by using dictation techniques as a technique in teaching listening at SMPN 35 Surabaya in the academic year 2020/2021. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was applied in this study in two cycles. In this classroom action research, the technique was divided into note taking and partial dictation. The primary data about students listening achievement were gained from the listening test. Meanwhile, the supporting data were gathered from observation and documentation. The results on students’ activity showed the use of text dictation techniques could improve the eighth-grade students’ activity in listening. Furthermore, In the first cycle of the test’ result, the teaching listening activity was not so good as what was expected. On the average, the percentage of the students’ involvement in the process of teaching listening was only 45% in the first meeting and 50% in the second meeting. But, in the second cycle the percentage of students’ involvement in the process of teaching listening increased from 77% in the first meeting to 80% in the second meeting. This improvement happened because of some revision, they were; choosing the text with familiar story for the students, reading the text more clearly, turning up the volume, and using more gestures in teaching listening technique

scholarly journals THE USE OF FLASHCARDS FOR TEACHING WRITING TO ENGLISH YOUNG LEARNERS (EYL)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Paramita Kusumawardhani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Classroom Action Research

<p>The aims of this research are to know about the use of flashcards to improve the English Young Learners’ writing skills. English has four skills to be learned; they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and writing skill is the most difficult skill to be taught and learnt. Flashcards are one of the ways to improve the learners’ skill, especially EYL writing skill. The participants of this research are English Young Learners (EYL) in of the English Course at Gading Serpong, Tangerang. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was used as the method of the research and the English Young Learners’ (EYL) story paper are used as the instruments of the research. The results of the research are: (1) Most learners were excited when they are asked to see the colorful flashcard; (2) Learners who have good writing skill could make the story by completing the missing words and answer the questions then arrange the answer sentences well and (3) Learners who are not really master in writing, got some difficulties not only in completing the missing words but also answering then arranging the answer sentences well.</p>

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE STRATEGY AT GRADE X OF VOCATIONAL MADRASAH ALIYAH ADZQIA BELIMBING

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Puspa Gundary ◽  
Aprizon Aprizon
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Positive Results

The purposes of this research were to find out whether example non-example strategy can improve the students’ writing skill on descriptive, and to find out what factors influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill in writing descriptive text. This research was Classroom Action Research. This research was conducted in two cycles, which each cycle had three meetings. It was conducted from August 1st until August 31th.The researcher gathered the data in each cycles from observation checklist, field notes, interviews, and writing test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that Example non-example strategy was able to improve the students’ writing skill of descriptive text through the process of comprehending the students, and assisting the students while they were writing. As the results, the students could improve their writing skill which involved the improvement of mean score of writing indicators; vocabulary, content/ideas, and organization. Moreover, it could be seen from the improvement of their mean score of basic score (56), test I (h62.5), and test II (79.4). Furthermore, the factors that influence the improvement of the students’ writing skill involved materials, media, and learning strategy. To sum up, the implementation of Example non-example strategy in teaching writing of descriptive text could provide positive results on their writing skill

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION OF RECOUNT TEXT BY USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE (TPS) TECHNIQUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Radhita Vidya ◽  
Annisa Nuraini
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
The Third ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research

The aims of this research is to improve reading comprehension of the eighth-grade students using think-pair-share technique. The researchers applying this technique is to make students actively learn in classthrough pair discussions and sharing information with their friends. The researchers used a classroom action research (CAR) method, this research has been carried out in three cycles to achieve students improvement in reading comprehension. The mean scores of students in the first cycle is 57.60, in the second cycle is 64.67, and in  the third cycle is 77.20. The mean scores of the three cycles prove that the think-pair-share technique has succeeded in improving students' reading comprehension of recount text. Keywords: Think-Pair-Share, Reading comprehension ,Recount text.

scholarly journals IMPROVING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING NLP STRATEGY AT VIII GRADE OF SMPN 11 DURI

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahler Dahler
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Improving Writing ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Scoring Rubric ◽  
Generic Structures

This research is based on the problem faced by the students such as: difficulty inunderstanding the generic structures of descriptive text and the difficulties in developingparagraph. The purpose of this research was to improve the students’ writing skill by usingNeuro Linguistics Programming (NLP) strategy at VIII grade of SMPN 11 Mandau Duri. Theresearch design was Classroom Action Research (CAR) consisted of two cycles. The datawere collected by using test, field note, observation sheet, and interview. Then, the datacollected were analyzed by using scoring rubric of writing descriptive text. The result showedthat students’ ability in writing descriptive text could be improved. It could be seen frombased score of students writing skill was 38 (failed) improve to 51 (failed) in cycle 1 to 70(Pass) in cycle II. It was caused by some factors, those were the teacher gave motivation,created enjoyfull experience, comfortable class and used various media. In conclusion, theuse of NLP strategy has many beneficial.

scholarly journals Improving Students’ Writing Skill in Writing Paragraph through an Outline Technique

Curricula ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukarta Kartawijaya
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

<p><em>This research was classroom action research. Classroom action research was a research that was conducted by a teacher in order to find out solutions of any problems found during teaching and learning process. In this research, it was done to explain whether by using an outline technique could improve the students’ writing paragraph and also to investigate some factors that influenced the students in writing descriptive paragraph. This research was done at grade VIII B of SMP Negeri 6 Sungai Penuh in academic year 2017/2018. From the result of the test in this research, the result was increased in cycle and two. In cycle one, the mean score was 58.25% and it increased to 76.87%, it increased 18.63% point. It meant that teaching writing through outline improved the students’ writing skill. The improvements were also improved on the result of each sub-indicators of writing test between cycle 1 and 2. </em></p>

scholarly journals Improving Students’ skill in Writing Narrative Text Through Animation Movie

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-237
Author(s):  
Kristiani Lisma Vera Br Ginting ◽  
Dinda Syafitri ◽  
Cahaya Riama Yanti Nehe ◽  
Nita Paskarina Manullang ◽  
Sri Ninta Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Planning Action

The purpose of this research is to find does the animation movies can improve students’ skill and ability in writing narrative text at SMP Swasta TD Pardede Foundation at VII grade in academic year2018/2019. In this research, the researchers used classroom action research and was conducted in two cycles. Each cycles consist of four steps, there are: planning, action, observing and reflecting. This research used quantitative and qualitative research to collect the data, researchers conduct tests. The tests are pre-test and post-test.The result showed that the teaching students’ skill in writing using video can improve students’ skill in writing narrative text. An increase in mean scores indicates that there is an increase in students’ skill.  The student’s pre-test score was 63.69; it increased to 72.50 in the first post-test up to 78.02 in the second post-test. From the result of the study, it can be concluded that teaching writing skill using animation videos can improve students’ writing skill. Keyword: narrative, animation movie

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