Improving the Eighth Grade Students’ Descriptive Text Writing Achievement by Using Realia at Smp Negeri 1 Puger

Abstract

This classroom action research was intended to improve the eighth grade students’ descriptive text writing achievement by using realia at SMP Negeri 1 Puger. This research was conducted in one cycle which consists of three meetings. There were two kinds of data collected in this research; qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data was gotten from the observation and the quantitative data was gotten from the writing test. Both of the data was analyzed in different ways. The qualitative data was analyzed by using inductive analysis techniques. Meanwhile, the quantitative data was analyzed by using a certain formula to get the percentage of the students who achieved score 72 or more. Based on the data analysis, it was revealed that the percentage of the students who got score 72 or more in the writing test increased from 29.4% (in preliminary study) to 94.12% (at the end of the research). The use of realia to teach writing helped the students have long memories about the vocabularies learnt, especially for the adjectives. The learning tasks using realia also help the students practice developing the five aspects of writing such as mechanics, grammar, content, organization, and vocabulary. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of realia could improve the students’ descriptive text writing achievement. Therefore, it is suggested to the English teacher to use realia as instructional media in teaching descriptive text writing.