Improving students’ writing descriptive text ability through content based approach (CBA) at ten grade of MAN Panyabungan

Main Author: Nasution, Arnisyah
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2013
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Online Access: http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/4305/1/083400046.pdf
http://etd.iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id/4305/
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  • This studied was talked about improving students’ writing descriptive textability throughcontent based approach. Most of students cannot write English well, because lack of vocabulary and comprehension about instruction, and English teachers don’t have appropriate method and used media in teaching learning. So the general problem that was formulated in this research was “does content based approach can improve the students writing ability at X grade of Man Panyabungan? This study aims at improving students’ writing descriptive text ability through content based approach at X grade ofMan Panyabungan. The objective of this study is to explain the effectiveness at X grade of Man Panyabunganin improving students writing ability.This research was be done by using classroom action research as collaborative.They were planning action, action, observation and reflection. To solve the problem, the writer conducted classroom action research, by implementing content based approach on the picture and keyword. The writer applied two cycles in this research. Each cycle consist of two meetings. The participant of this study was one class consisted of 30 students. The research result saw the progressive mean of the students. It was seen from the improvement mean score in pretest up to first cycle was 32.66 (6.66%) improved to 59,00 (60.00%). In second cycle improved to 70.66 (86.66%).The mean in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle.In conclusion, content based approach could improve students’ writing ability at X grade of Man Panyabungan. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researchers and teachers to conduct further research, particularly in writing issue.