Improving the X-7 Grade Students' Descriptive Text Writing Achievement by Using Braindancing-and-Downhilling Technique at MAN 1 Jember

Abstract

Teaching writing skills in Senior High Schools aims at making the students to be able to construct a good text. The use of braindancing-and-downhilling technique as a technique in teaching writing descriptive text was done through cyclical classroom action research. The students of class X-7 of MAN 1 Jember as the research participants. The main data were collected through observation and writing test. As many as 43.75% of the students were indicated as active participants in meeting one of cycle one. It increased to 53.125% in meeting two. Meanwhile, as many as 56.25% of the students achieved 75 or higher in writing test. In meeting one of cycle two, as many as 68.75% of the students were actively participated during the teaching learning process of writing. It improved to 81.25% in meeting two. The percentage of the students who achieved 75 or higher in writing test was 78.125%.