| dc.description.abstract | This clasroom action research was intended toimprove the first year students’
writing achievement at SMAN I Tongas Probolinggo in the 2006/2007 Academic
Year by appliying Peer Editing Technique. The respondents of this classroom Action
research (CAR) were class Xd that was determined purposively. The class Xd were
chosen as the subjects of this research because the class had more cmlicated problem
dealing with writing and their average score in writing was the lowest among five
existing classes that was 59.2 in the first semester of 2006/2007 Academic Year.
This CAR consisted of two cycles, in which each cycle covered four main
stages including: the planning of the action, the implementation of the action,
classroom observation. Meanwhile, the supporting data were gathered from interview
and documentation.
The result of the average score of the writing test in the first cycle was
M=68.61 that was classified in the fair category. This result did not achieved the
standard average score requirement in this research that was M≥70. besides, based on
the classroom observation that was done in the first cycle, it was found that the
students’ involvement in the process of writing activities was 60.5%. therefore, the
actions were proceeded to the second cycle by revising the first action cycle such as:
optimalizing the students’ participation in the process of writing activities, giving
enogh clues about the passive sentences, news item and the way to conduct peer
editing to the students. The results of the average score of the writing test in the
second cycle was better M=75.73 that was classified in the good category. Besides,
the students’ involvement in the writing process improved from 60.5% in the first
cycle up to 83.7% in the second cycle. It means that both the students’ writing test
and the students’ involvement in the writing process improved in the second cycle
and fulfilled the target of this research.
Based on the results, it could be concluded that the use of peer editing
technique could improve the first year students’ writing achievement at SMAN I
Tongas Probolinggo in the 2006/2007 Academic Year in two cycles. Then it is
suggested tothe English teacher to apply peer-editing technique as the alternative way
of English teaching technique, especially in teaching writing a news item text. This is
expected to facilitate and to help the students collaborate and share knowledge and
experiences with their peers to solve the writing problems | en_US |
