THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS' ABILITY IN WRITING ENGLISH WORDS THROUGH DICTATION AT SON PATRANG I JEMBER IN THE 2004/2005 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

There are some activities of introducing writing for elementary students and one of them is dictation. Dictation is one of good activity to lead young learners to be able to write and memorize many vocabularies they have learnt. For this reason, this research was intended to describe the fifth grade students' ability in writing English words through dictation at SDN Patrang I Jember in the 2004/2005 academic year. The research design was descriptive quantitative. The respondents which has determined by population method consist of 63 students. The primary data were obtained by dictation test and the collected data were analyzed by using the percentage formula. Documents and interview were used to collect the supporting data.