Improving Students’ Writing Achievement on Narrative Text By Using Home-Made Books Teaching Media In The Eight Grade Of SMPN 3 Ngunut

Buana, Sadu, Fitria Marga (2014) Improving Students’ Writing Achievement on Narrative Text By Using Home-Made Books Teaching Media In The Eight Grade Of SMPN 3 Ngunut. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

KeyWords: Home-Made Books, writing. Writing as one of English skills must be mastered by the students. Writing skill cannot be separated from others skills such as listening, speaking, and reading. As writing has purpose to communicate the writers’ idea, thought, and feeling through written language form, so it is very important for students to master. Writing will be useful both in academic level and in professional field. However, the teaching of writing often faces some problems. Especially for students of junior high school, based on the interview and the observation, the researcher found that students in the Eight grade of SMPN 3 Ngunut has low ability in writing because they get difficulty to use correct sentences, and to express their ideas in the written form, also they had low participation in teaching and learning. Those problems were happened in the second years of students in SMPN 3 Ngunut Tulungagung. Therefore, the researcher offers Home-Made Books to answer that problem. Home-Made Books improves students’ imagination to grow their idea in their stories and also provide rich vocabularies. Because of it makes students more creative to play with new words and various words of English. The formulation of the research were: 1) Does Home-Made books improve students’ writing achievement in the eighth grade of the SMPN 3 Ngunut? And 2) Does Home Made Books increase students’ participation to learn English writing of Narrative Text in the eighth grade of SMPN 3 Ngunut? The Objectives of the research were to: 1) know whether Home-Made Books improves students’ writing achievement of narrative text in the eighth grade of SMPN 3 Ngunut, 2) know whether Home-Made Books increase students’ participation to learn English writing of Narrative Text in eighth grade of SMPN 3 Ngunut. Research Method: 1) The research design in this research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) that categorized into qualitative study, 2) The population of this research was the students of SMPN 3 Ngunut Tulungagung, 3) The sample was VIII C class consisting of 27 pupils. 4) the criteria of success was determined in two ways: a) 75% of the students were able to write narrative text with score ≥75 (equal or above KKM score) which were known using writing test, b) the improvement of students’ participation in learning writing which determined by 80% of students’ activeness as observation result 5) the instruments were observation, interview, writing test and field notes, 6) because the data of this viii research were not only in the form of numbers but also in the form of words or sentences, the data analysis was done by studying the whole data from many sources which were observation, interview, writing test and field note. The result of this research showed that the students’ mean score of pre-test was 61.63. Then students’ mean score of writing test after making Home-Made Books in cycle 1 was 72.59. As a result, the criteria of success ≥75 had not been achieved yet in cycle 1, so the researcher conducted cycle 2. In cycle 2, the students’ mean score was 76.44. As the result, the criteria of success ≥75 could be achieved by students. So the researcher stopped the research in this cycle, it could be said that this research was successful. Furthermore, the researcher gathered the data from observation and interview, also field note to know students’ participation in teaching and learning writing. The data observation showed that the criteria of success of students’ activeness 80% had not been achieved yet in cycle 1 because the students’ participation in meeting 1 was 74% and in meeting 2 was 81%. However, students’ participation had been achieved in cycle 2 because students’ participation in meeting 1 was 83% and in meeting 2 was 88%. In addition, the result of interview and field notes also showed that students had good participation in instructional process. It means that the students’ participation in cycle 2 was very good in instructional process. Based on the result of the study above, it could be concluded that the implementation of Home-Made Books material was successful in this research. It could be an alternative to improve students’ writing skill, and the students’ participation in learning writing especially for junior high school.

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