Improving Student’s Writing Skill of Descriptive Text by Using picture

The journal that I have read last week is Improving Student’s Writing Skill of Descriptive Text by Using picture. The journal is written by  Akhmad Mukhotim Nasir, Abdul Asib, A. Handoko Pudjobroto, they are from English Education Study Program Sebelas Maret University Surakarta.

Research Finding Methods

This research is undertaken to find the goals of that namely factors causing low writing skill of students, identifying the improvement of the students’ writing skill and certain pictures that activate students’ motivation in writing class. The findings are described in this chapter which covers three sections, research process, research findings and research discussion.

First, the research process. The research was conducted on eighth grade of SMP Negeri 5 Kebumen for about 2 weeks. It consists of two cycles; there are three meetings for each cycle. The procedure of action research consists of pre-research, research implementation, and the research discussion as a reflection.

The pre-research was held before conducting the research. It was held in order to identify the problems occurred during the teaching and learning process in relation with students ‘writing skill improvement before using the different technique; to identify the teacher’s technique in teaching writing; and also to identify the students’ learning activity during TL process. Pre-research here include: interviewing the teacher, observing the TL process, and giving pre-test to the students.

Researcher implemented the action plan. In this step, the researcher implemented the teaching learning of the writing skills using Pictures. The first cycle was conducted in three meetings. In teaching writing skills the researcher used four stages namely building knowledge of the field, modelling of the text, joint construction of the text and independent construction of the text.

Improving Student’s Writing Skill of Descriptive Text by Using picture

The journal that I have read last week is Improving Student’s Writing Skill of Descriptive Text by Using picture. The journal is written by  Akhmad Mukhotim Nasir, Abdul Asib, A. Handoko Pudjobroto, they are from English Education Study Program Sebelas Maret University Surakarta.

RESEARCH METHODS

In this research, the writer uses action research method. The action research consists of several stages, planning, pre-research, the research and post research. In this classroom action research, each procedure takes six steps that form a cycle, they are as follows: First, Identifying the problems. The problems were identified first before planning the action. The problems referred to the factors making the low writing improvement of the students. The problems were identified by using three techniques as follows:

(a) Using test. The pre-test was given to know the students’ competence in writing skills.

(b) Interviewing the teacher. The interview was held in order to know the problems faced by the teacher during teaching-learning process.

(c) Observation. The observation was held in order to know the students behavior during the teaching-learning process to know the model of class management and students writing skills. Second, Planning the action.

This action research which concerns on using picture in teaching writing needs some data to be analyzed. The data were collected through observation, interviews, field notes, and also the result of the tests. The data of the research were conducted by using some techniques of qualitative data collection include: interview, observation, diary, and document analysis. The implementation of the research was also in photographs to provide more accurate data.