| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to improve class VIII/D
students’ recount text writing achievement by using composite pictures at SMPN
3 Lumajang. This research began by conducting a preliminary study by
interviewing the English teacher of the eighth grade students of SMPN 3
Lumajang. It was found that the class VIII/D students of SMPN 3 Lumajang
experienced difficulties in writing especially writing recount text. The English
teacher said that the students who reached the minimum score requirement that is
73 were only 18 students or 55% of total students in the class. It was because they
were lack of vocabulary, unable to use mechanical and grammatical structures
correctly, experienced difficulties to start to write, developed and organized their
ideas. Moreover the students also had less motivation whereas less than 50%
students who were active participated in the teaching learning process of writing.
To solve the problems above, the researcher used composite pictures as
teaching media in teaching writing of recount text. The researcher used composite
pictures because it was an effective and interesting media to improve the students’
recount text writing achievement as well as their active participation during the
teaching learning process. It is supported by Wright (1989:4-6) that pictures can
improve some aspects of language such as structure, vocabulary, function,
situation and four language skills. He also stated that pictures contribute to
interest and motivation, a sense of the context of the language, and a specific
reference point or stimulus (Wright 1989:2).
The research design was Classroom Action Research (CAR) with cycle
model. This classroom action research was conducted by the researcher and the
English teacher collaboratively. Each cycle consisted of four stages included the planning of the action, implementation of the action, classroom observation and
evaluation, and data analysis and reflection of the action. This research was
conducted at SMPN 3 Lumajang. Class VIII/D students of SMPN 3 Lumajangwere the research subjects of this research. The data in this research were obtainedby administering the writing test and by doing observation during the teachinglearning process in each meeting of each cycle.
In Cycle 1, the results of the writing test showed that the students who
achieved the minimum score requirement were only 21 students or 63.6 % of total
students in the class. Meanwhile the research would be successful if there was atleast 75% of the total students who achieved the minimum score requirement. Itmeans that the writing test result had not achieved the target yet. Then, based onthe classroom observation it was found that the percentage of students’ active
The result of the observation had not
achieved the target because there must be at least 75% of the students did at least
three indicators from four indicators being observed. It was because there were
some procedures of teaching writing recount text by using composite pictures
which were not completely done by the researcher such as asking simple
questions to guide the students to list events in the pictures and asking them to
make complete sentences based on the the pictures then arranged the sentences
into a recount text. Therefore, the students still had problems in writing. The
problems dealed with organization whereas the students were still confused about
how to sequence the events in the pictures. Another problem was grammar
whereas the students did many mistakes in using simple past tense. Therefore, the
actions were continued to the second cycle by revising some necessary aspects by
conducting complete procedures of teaching writing recount text by using
composite pictures. | en_US |
