Improving the Fifth Years Students’ Writing Narrative Texts Ability through Comic at SDI DARUT TAQWA in Academic Year 2011/2012

Didik anwar, Bishri, (2012) Improving the Fifth Years Students’ Writing Narrative Texts Ability through Comic at SDI DARUT TAQWA in Academic Year 2011/2012. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Key words: Narrative text, Improving, Writing Ability, Comic Writing as one of ways of communication is very important since through it we can express our ideas to many people whom we cannot meet directly. Nevertheless, writing as one of language skills is not easy to do, especially for foreign language. Therefore, we have to master the written form of the language and to learn certain structures that are less used in speech, or perhaps are not used at all, but which are important for effective communication in writing. Unfortunately, there were some problems faced by the fifth students of SDI DARUT TAQWA. Firstly, the researcher found the students’ writing achievement was poor. It can be seen in the students’ score before conducting this research. They still get confused on the teacher’s technique, their motivation decrease and they dislike to join the writing subject in the class. They feel bored and think that it is too difficult to understand because the teacher’s technique without something to be used as a way to support the teaching and learning process. One teaching media that may be able to overcome the problem above is comic. Based on the background, the researcher formulates the problem of this study as follows: “How can comic improve the fifth year students’ writing narrative texts ability at SDI DARUT TAQWA in academic year 2011/2012?” Then, the objective of this study is to find out whether comic can improve the fifth year students’ writing narrative texts ability at SDI DARUT TAQWA in academic year 2011/2012. This study was classroom action research concentrated on one kind of text that is narrative text. The subject of the study is fifth class of SDI DARUT TAQWA that consisted of 24 students. The procedure of this study consisted of five steps, namely: preliminary study, planning, acting, observing the action, and reflecting the action. The study was conducted in two cycles followed by the administration of post test in each cycle to evaluate the students’ achievement in writing. The data of the study were obtained from the following research instruments: observation, test, questionnaire, interview and documentation. The criteria of success was 75% among whole member of the students in the class. The standard value was 68. The result of the study showed that the implementation of comic could improve the students’ achievement in writing narrative text. The improvements were indicated by increasing of the percentage of class success on post test administered at the end of each cycle. On preliminary test, the percentage of class success was 33.33% or 8 students of 24 students in the class. So, the criteria of success had not been achieved. Then, on cycle 1, the percentage of class success was 70.83% or 17 students of 24 students in the class. It was indicated that there was improvement of the percentage of class success. However, the criteria of success was 75% among whole member of the students had not been achieved yet. It caused the researcher need to do the second cycle. Then, on cycle 2, the percentage of class success was 87.5% or 21 students of 24 students in the class. It showed that the students’ achievement could increase and the criteria of success had been achieved. As the result, the students’ test conducted in cycle 2 was satisfying. It indicated that teaching learning process was successful. So, it could be concluded that comic was able to be used to improve the students’ ability in writing narrative text. Besides, the result of interview showed that both the teacher and the students gave good responses toward the implementation of comic. The result of students’ questionnaire also showed that the students were very excited to follow the activities and they were interested in learning writing using comic. Therefore the researcher suggested the English teacher to use comic as an alternative teaching media in teaching writing. Then, for the students, the researcher suggested to optimize the strength and the benefit of comic while writing narrative text since it could be used as the guide to improve their writing. And for the next researchers were suggested to use the result of this study as an input to conducts a further study dealing with other teaching media or the same teaching media but with different research design, like the use of comic to improve the students’ reading ability. Finally, for the researcher himself, it is suggested to be as a reflection for him in teaching and learning process.

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