| dc.description.abstract | This research was a classroom action research. It was intended to improve the
grade eight students‟ paragraph writing achievement and their participation by using
Numbered Heads Together (NHT) model in teaching learning process. It was
conducted at SMP PGRI Bangsalsari which was chosen by purposive method. The
subjects of the research were the grade eight students of class VIII A under the
consideration that they were low achievers and could not perform well in learning
English. In addition, the data of the research were taken from the interview,
observation, and writing test.
NHT model was chosen as the model in the teaching learning process of
writing under consideration that NHT model requires students to think together to
discuss the answers with the member of the groups. The groups‟ success depends on
every member of the groups because every student has his/her own responsibility to
do the assignment based on the results of discussion.
This classroom action research consisted of two cycles in which each cycle
covered the stages of planning the action, implementation of the action, classroom observation and reflection of the action. Then, each cycle was conducted in two
meeting. In the third meeting, a writing test was conducted. In addition, observation
was used to monitor the students‟ active participation in the teaching learning process
by using NHT model.
From the results of classroom observation in cycle one, it was known that there
were 60% or 18 of 30 students who actively involved in the teaching and learning
process in the first meeting. Moreover, 66.66% or 20 of 30 students actively
participated in the second meeting. These meant that the process evaluation has not
achieved yet. In addition, the result of the achievement was not successful. It can be
seen from the students‟ score. 63.34% or 19 of 30 students achieved ≥70. It did not
achieve the requirement. That was 70% of the students had to get ≥70. Therefore, the
action was continued to cycle two.
Based on the results of observation in the first meeting in cycle two, there were
76.66% or 23 of 30 students actively involved in the teaching learning process. In the
second meeting, it was known that 86.67% or 26 of 30 students were categorized as
active during the teaching learning process. Meanwhile, the percentage of the
students who got score ≥ 70 improved to 76.67% or 23 of 30 students in cycle two.
These meant that the actions in cycle two were successful and necessary to be
stopped.
Finally, the findings in both cycles showed that the use of NHT model could
improve the grade eight students‟ paragraph writing achievement as well as their
active participation. Therefore, the English teacher, the students, and the other
researchers are suggested to use NHT model as an alternative model in teaching
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