“Improving the Eight Grade Students' Achievement in Writing a Recount

Abstract

This research was intended to improve the eight grade students’ achievement in writing a recount text by using picture in series at SMP Islam Terpadu al Ghozali Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. The subjects of this research were the students of class VIII A at SMP Islam Terpadu Al ghozali Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. The research design was classroom action research. The data of this research were obtained from the students’ writing test and observation. The result of writing test in cycle 1 showed that the percentage of the students who got score ≥ 70 was 78% of 23 students. Then, the result of writing test in Cycle 2 showed that the percentage of the students who got scores at least 70 were 82% of 23 students. It means that there was improvement from the first cycle to the second cycle as much as 4% of the percentage of the students who got score ≥ 70. Based on the results of observation in Cycle 1 and 2, the students showed improvement in their participation during the teaching and learning process of writing. The average percentage of the students’ active participation in Cycle 1 was 82.65%. Meanwhile, the average percentage of the students’ active participation in Cycle 2 was 86.8%. From the results of observation there was an improvement as much as 4.15% on the students’ active participation during the teaching and learning process of Cycle 1 and 2. Based on the research result, it could be concluded that the use of picture in series was able to improve the eight students’ active participation, as well as their writing achievement in the teaching learning process of writing