| dc.description.abstract | This Classroom Action Research was intended to improve the eighth grade
students‟ descriptive paragraph writing achievement through Realia at SMP
Negeri 2 Lumajang in the 2010/2011 academic year. This research subjects were
the students of class Eight E that was determined purposively, because their
writing achievement score was the lowest among the six existing classes which
was below the standard mastery of English of the school that is 75. It was known
from the result of the preliminary study, the interview, the classroom observation
and the students‟ previous writing score. Besides, they also still experienced
difficulties in the areas of vocabularies, tenses or structure masteries, mechanical
skills, organization and content of the paragraph. As a result, they experienced
difficulties in composing writing in English. Finally, both the researcher and the
English teacher agreed to apply realia because this learning media was suitable
and appropriate to overcome the students‟ problems in writing.
This research was carried out in two cycles. Each cycle covered the stages
including planning of the action, implementation of the action, classroom
observation and evaluation, and analysis and reflection of the action. These
activities were conducted in each cycle. The first cycle was conducted in three
meetings including the writing test. The data of the students‟ writing achievement
were collected through the writing test. Meanwhile, observation was used to
monitor the teaching learning process of writing by using checklist.
The results of the students‟ writing achievement in the first cycle showed
that the percentage of the students who got score 75 or more was 54.28%. In
addition, the results of observation in Cycle 1 revealed that only 54.05% out of 37
students actively participated in the teaching learning process of writing by using | en_US |
