THE USE OF SELF MONITORING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE TENTH YEAR STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING ABILITY AT SMUN 1 KENCONG IN THE 2008/2009 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This research was a classroom action research. It was intended to improve the students’ paragraph writing ability. It was conducted at Smun 1 Kencong which was chosen by purposive method with the following considerations: (1) the researcher found the case at this school, (2) it gave benefits to the students and the teachers at this school because this research gave an input to improve the teaching learning process, (3) the school provided the data and the facilities needed for this research, and (4) the researcher had known the situation and the condition of the teaching learning process and the characteristics of the tenth year students in each class. The subjects of the research were the tenth year students of class 1.1 under the consideration that most of the students in that class have difficulties in paragraph writing. In addition, the data of the research were collected from the writing eveluation and supporting data which were collected from the interview, observation and documentation.