| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to improve class XA students’
ability in writing recount text by using outlining technique. Class XA was chosen as
the research subject because the percentage of the students who got score >75 was
only 61.11%. 75 was the standard requirement score of the school that should be
reached by at least 75% of the students. Moreover, the average score of this class was
70.94 while the minimum standard of the passing grade of writing was 75. Most of
the students had difficulties on how to start writing, how to develop and arrange their
ideas into a good paragraph, how to expand their vocabularies and tense mastery. The
students’ common problem was that they often did not know how to start writing
when they were asked to write. Consequently, they tended to concern much on how
to finish their writing soon rather than on how to make a good composition. Further,
the students who were lack of vocabulary tend to use only certain words they had
known. As a result, they just applied some words from dictionary without considering
the context of their writing.
This classroom action research was done collaboratively with the English
teacher. The collaboration covers the planning of the action, the implementation of
the action, observation and evaluation, and data analysis and reflection. This research
was carried out in two cycles and each cycle was conducted in two meetings and
writing test was conducted in the third meeting. The data collection method used in
each cycle was writing test, observation, interview, and documentation. From the results of writing test in the first cycle, it was known that the
students’ mean score of writing test was 74.86. The number of the students who got
score ≥75 was 21 students (58.33%). These results have not achieved the standard
requirement yet because the mean score was only 74.86 (the target of mean score was
≥75) and there were only 58.33% of students who got score ≥75 (it was targeted 75%
of the students got score ≥75). Therefore, it was necessary to continue the actions to
the second cycle by revising some necessary aspects in the first cycle.
In the second cycle, the results of writing test were better than that of the first
cycle. The mean score in the second cycle was 85.26 and the number of students who
got score ≥75 was 29 students (80.55%). It could be assumed that the target of this
research was achieved in the second cycle. In addition, from the observation done by
the teacher, it indicated that all of the students were enthusiastic in teaching learning
process. According to the teacher, it was the first time for the students to use
outlining technique. As the result, all of the students were actively participated in
teaching and learning process. In conclusion, teaching writing by using outlining
technique could improve the students’ ability in writing recount text in which also
improved the students’ writing achievement. | en_US |
