| dc.description.abstract | The preliminary study conducted in the forms of observation and interview
with the English teacher of the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Dringu revealed
that most of the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Dringu, especially class VII A,
faced some difficulties in writing a paragraph in terms of finding and generating the
ideas, putting them into right words, phrase, and constructing sentences in the
grammatically correct. This was proven by their previous writing scores which
showed that 18 students (58.06%) of 31 students in Class VII A got 70. There were
only 50% of the students who were active in teaching and learning process of writing.
It means that the students were still passive in the classroom.
In this research, the researcher used individual pictures in teaching a
descriptive paragraph writing to the students because the researcher believed that
individual pictures could improve the seventh grade students’ achievement in writing
a descriptive paragraph and their participation in the teaching learning process of
writing. This research was conducted in 2 cycles from February 4th until February
21st, 2015. Each cycle consist of two meetings and a writing achievement test. The
reseacher and the English teacher of SMPN 2 Dringu taught writing a descriptive
paragraph to the students and did the observation collaboratively.
The results of the classroom observation in the first cycle showed that 20
students (64.52%) in meeting 1 and 23 students (74.19%) in meeting 2 actively
participated during the teaching learning process of writing descriptive paragraph by
using individual pictures. The average result of the students’ active participation in
the first cycle was 69.36%. It showed that there was improvement of the students’
active participation but it still had not achieved the successful criterion of the research that was 75% of the students actively participated during the teaching learning
process of writing by using individual pictures. Beside that, the result of writing test
showed that the students who got score ≥ 70 in the writing test of the first cycle were
only 21 students or 67.74% of 31 students. However, it had not achieved the standard
score yet as the successful criterion of the research for writing at least 75% of the
students got 70 or higher in the writing test.
Based on the results of the first cycle above, the second cycle was necessary
to be conducted. Some revisions dealing with the activities in the classroom had been
made to solve the problems found in the first cycle. The classroom observation and
writing test in the second cycle showed the improvement. In the classroom
observation, the students’ participation showed that 77.42% in meeting 1 and 80.65%
in meeting 2 of the students actively participated in the teaching learning process of
writing descriptive paragraph by using individual pictures. The average result of the
students’ active participation in the second cycle was 79.03%. So, the result of the
observation had achieved the objective of the research. In the second cycle, the result
of the writing test showed that 80.64% of the students (25 of 31 students) got score ≥
70 in the writing test of the second cycle. That number of percentage indicated that
there was improvement in students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph.
From the observation done during the teaching learning process of writing
descriptive paragraph by using individual pictures, the average percentage result of
the students’ active participation showed the improvement from Cycle 1 that was
69.36% to 79.03% in Cycle 2. Further, the result of writing test in Cycle 1 indicated
that only 21 students (67.74%) of 31 students achieved the standard minimum score
that was ≥ 70 and it increased in Cycle 2 that 25 students (80.65%) of 31 students
could achieve the standard minimum score that was ≥ 70.
Finally, it could be summarized that the use of individual pictures could
improve the seventh grade students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph
and their active participation in the teaching learning process of writing descriptive
paragraph at SMPN 2 Dringu. | en_US |
