Improving Students’ Writing Abilitiy Through Text
Procedure
(An Experiment at Class 3 Students of MTSS Al Furqan Bambi)
By
Elhidayat
INTRODUCTION
1.
The
Background of Study
Language as a main tool of communication
is very important to learn. Language makes us easy to interaction each other. Because of it, many
languages are used in the world. English as international language becomes a
study which is forced to be learnt. It is not only used for communication but
also used for keeping up with the development of technology and science. Many
occupations need someone who has mastered English skills well. English has four
skills; they are speaking, listening, reading, and writing. All of the skills
are highly required.
Some countries use English as second
language. For example, Malaysia and Singapore. In Indonesia, English as foreign
language. Because of that, English becomes a difficult study to be learnt.
People think that they do not need English to communicate in their daily
activities because they can use their own language. For students, they only get
a few times to learn or practice English in school. So, they are not interested
and always be shy to use English.
For people who work in the typing house,
they usually reject the typing about English. It causes they have to spell
letter by letter every type it. So like that for students, they are lazy to
write because what that they read is different with what that they have to
write. They do not have enough vocabulary and they are afraid to make something
wrong with the grammar, too. Therefore they think that writing is boring
activity and it is uninteresting for them.
Referring to above condition, the writer
believes that writing is a skill that needs extra works to be mastered. The
purpose of teaching writing is to improve students’ ability to function
effectively in such written context.
Writing, for obvious reasons, is one of
the most visible products of education, and incorect usage and spelling havew
been taken to be signs or a personal scholastic failure and an alleged
widespread deterioration of writing ability and indication of inadequacies in
whole scholl systems. So, it is not surprising that some countries or school
system have begun to assess systematically the efficacy of the teaching and learning
of writing (Takala, 1988:4). Writing plays an important role in
which speaking can not to fulfill the communicative needs. Crimon (1983) said
that writing is hard work. Therefore students need a lot of practices to apply
their writing ability. Writing is an effective way to communicate and express
our thoughts, feelings, and opinions to others. Writing has function to
entertaining and making fun. There are a variety of ways to use writing in our
everyday live. For example we can write about the cake receipt. Writing skill
helps the learners gain independent, comprehensibility, fluency and creativity
in writing. If learners have mastered these skills, they will be able to write
so that not only they can read what they have written, but others speakers of
that language can read and understand it.
As a teacher, teaching is not an easy
job but it is necessary one and can be very rewarding when we see out students’
progress and know that we have helped to make it happen. Based on the concept
and function of English as stated in the 2006 Competence-Based Curriculum which
has similar principle with Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) for
SMP/MTs, the teaching-learning of English has the purpose to develop four
skills.
Many teachers are also strongly committed
to invite students to participate effectively in writing situations. The
teachers have some texts for help them in teaching writing. The texts are
purposeful and patterned to serve writer purpose. Each texts type has different
social function, general structure, and language feature. There are many kinds
of text that are studied in junior high school students, namely narrative,
descriptive, recount, report, and procedure.
The study will be focused on writing a
procedure text which one of the materials in English lesson for SMP/MTs
especially on the third year students. Procedure is one of text that is to help
the readers how to do, use, or make something completely. Sometimes, the
students create the procedure text without care about the generic structure
specifically. They also get problem in using imperative verb and temporal
conjunction. So, the result of learning procedure text is not optimal.
Finally, based on the writer experiment
and observation, the writer chooses MTsS Al Furqan Bambi to conduct the
research. I would like to take this school because most of learners at MTsS Al
Furqan Bambi are lazy to learn English especially writing. To solve the
problem, the writer chooses the title to help the learners “IMPROVING STUDENTS’
WRITING SKILL THROUGH TEXT PROCEDURE” (An Experiment at class 3 Students of
MTsS Al Furqan Bambi)
2.
The
Problem of Study
Based on the background above, so the
researcher can formulate the problem in this research as follow:
·
Could procedure text improve students’
writing skill?
3.
The
Hypothesis of Study
Hypothesis is a guiding idea, statement
of possibilities, and searches the relevant data and other consideration and
predicts the certain result.
In every research it is necessary to
formulate the certain hypothesis, because according to Helt and Good (1952:73)
the formulation of the hypothesis is a central step in good research and it is
important to give a great deal of thought.
The hypothesis of this study can be
formulated as follow the student taught by writing a procedure text improves
their ability in English writing skill to those who are taught not procedure
text.
4.
The
Purpose of The Study
This
study is carried out in order that the author gets more information about how
to teach writing with a proper way or method. The result of the research can be used as input in
English teaching-learning process, especially in teaching writing procedure
text. The result of the research can be
used as the reference for those who want to conduct a research in English
teaching-learning process. In Practical Benefit, the writer hopes that the
result of this research will be useful for teachers of readers, in order that
they can use it in the teaching learning process, to make the students more
interested in studying English.
. The research has several purposes for
teacher and students. Students are more interested to write and get more ideas
to develop their ideas. For teacher, they are easier to get procedure text on magazine, newspaper, or magazine to
help them in teaching and learning.
- Scope of the Study
A limitation for the scope of the study
is about writing skill. The writer limited for the second years at MTsS Al
Furqan Bambi. The class is IX.A and IX.B in order to mastering writing skill
especially for their grammar and vocabulary in teaching writing to improve
students’ writing ability on procedure text. It will be know when we use
pre-test and post-test.
- Population and Sample
6.1.Population
The population of this
research is all of the third year students of junior high school at MTsS Al Furqan
Bambi which consist of 67
students in two classes.
6.2.
Sample
The
writer will choose two classes as a sample for the experimental class and
control class. VIIIB as an experimental class that the number of students are
33 students . VIIIA as a control class that the number of students are 34
students. To represent this large number of
population, students of class were taken as the sample.
The research samples were used
purposive sampling. The purpose of this sampling
technique was to made the researcher easy in reaching the result of improving students’ writing ability through text procedure in
experimental class whether it is effective or not after applying
this text. It was useful in order to measure the students achievement of the
subject given.
7. Methods
·
Writing
Writing is an activity to express ideas,
issues, events, filling, or thinking through written form. A definition of
writing suggest by John (1967:221) as a visual ability that important to the
individual only when wish to communicate on paper.
·
Procedure
A procedure text is
a text to inform someone how to make, to do, or to use something.
7.1. Experimental
Study
This study
under experimental teaching method. So, it is needed on experimental class. To
the Experimental Class the writer use the procedure text and real things media
in learning process. Whereas to the control class, the writer taught them based
on method that commonly applied by their teacher as text book.
7.2.
Treatment
In this section,
the writer use the topic about procedure text by using pictures on experimental
class. The way of this text is showing some pictures to make something. The
students write procedure text based on steps of the picture. Whereas to control
class, the writer taught them without procedure text and pictures. She taught
based on methode their teacher commonly applied in learning process.
7.3.
Manipulation
The last step on
the lesson, the writer asked some questions to find out how far they understood
about writing. Then, the writer found that the studentn can use the pattern
such as pour the hot water ( V1 + O ). So, the use procedure text in writing
learning can develop students’ speaking ability and it is a good alternative
way in learning process.
8. The
Organization of the Study
This thesis
consists of five chapters:
·
Chapter one is
introduction that include the background of study, the problem of the study,
the aim of study, the significant of the study, the research question and
hypothesis, operational definition, the scope of study, and the organization of
study;
·
Chapter two
will explain about literature preview consists of introduction of daily
activities writing, showing picture, explanation of grammar;
·
Chapter three
is about methodology that consists of the location of the research, populations
of sample, the research methodology;
·
Chapter four
is about data processing; and
·
Chapter five
is consists of conclusion and suggestion.
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