Improving The Eleventh Grade Students'Writing Achievement Through Written Feedback At SMAN 5 Jember In The 2007/2008 Academic Year

Abstract

This classroom action research was intended to improve the eleventh grade students* writing achievement at SMAN 5 Jember in the 2007/2008 academic year. This research was begun by conducting an interview with the English teacher o f the eleventh grade students o f SMA Negeri 5 Jember on 3rd 2007. There were four classes o f the eleventh grade students o f that school. Based on the prelim inary study, it was known that the eleventh grade students o f SMA Negeri 5 Jember had problems in writing. It was revealed that class XI IP A B had the lowest writing score among the students o f four existing classes with the mean score 50. Therefore, it was chosen as die subject o f this research that was determined purposively. W ritten feedback was chosen as the technique in the teaching learning process o f writing under the reasons that by this technique, the students could know the mistakes they made in their writing and could improve their ability in writing. This classroom action research was done in collaboration with the English teacher covering the planning o f the action, the implementation o f the action, class observation and evaluation, and data analysis and reflection o f die action. This research was carried out in two cycles and each cycle consisted o f three meetings included the test. The prim ary data were about the students’ writing achievement collected by administering writing achievement test and observation by using checklist. The collected data were analyzed in the form o f quantitative and qualitative analysis. M eanwhile the reflection was done based on the findings during the observation and compared to die criteria o f success that were 75% o f the students had the average score 65 and 75% o f the research subjects were actively involved in the teaching learning process o f writing using written feedback