| dc.description.abstract | This classroom action research was intended to improve the tenth Science
5 grade students’ writing achievement by using “Think-Talk-Write” strategy at
SMAN 1 Arjasa. The Preliminary study was conducted in the form of interview
with the English teacher of SMAN 1 Arjasa. It was known that the tenth grade
students of SMAN 1 Arjasa, especially the tenth Science 5 still had difficulty in
writing a descriptive text. They were confused in finding, generating, expressing
and exploring their ideas into a descriptive text. There were only 42.85% students
from 35 students who got ≥75. The teacher further said that the students’ active
participation of students X Science 5 was also low, there were only 45% were
active. Thus, the researcher tried to overcome the problem by using “Think-Talk-
Write” strategy in teaching writing a descriptive text.
The study was done in two cycles to check the consistency of the research
result. Each cycle covered two meetings of the action implementation and one
meeting for administering the test. Besides, the observation checklist consisted of
4 indicators, namely 1) Making a note related to the pictures, 2) Finding ideas, 3)
Discussing & Finding information about a text, 4) Composing the descriptive text.
The students were categorized as active if they could fulfill at least 3 indicators.
The observation results in Cycle 1 in the first meeting showed that there were
82.85% or 29 students of 35 students who participated actively during teaching
learning process. In the second meeting, there were 87.87% or 29 students of 33
students who were actively participating during teaching and learning process of
writing. The average results of the students’ participation in Meeting 1 of Cycle 1
and Meeting 2 of Cycle 1 was 85.36%. Besides, the results of writing test in the
Cycle 1 showed there were 77.14% or 27 students of 35 students achieved. | en_US |
