The Ability of Writing Recount Text of the Eighth Grade Students of MTs Mathali’ul Fallah Langgenharjo Juwana in the Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Basic Questioning
| Main Author: | Vulusiana, Yuli |
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| Format: | Bachelors NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
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, 2012
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http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/1/01_HALAMAN_JUDUL.pdf http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/2/8.CHAPTER_I%2CII%2CIII.pdf http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/3/9.CHAPTER_IV%2CV%2CVI.pdf http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/4/10.BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/5/11.Appendix.pdf http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1101/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Writing is usually considered as the most difficult skill to master for the students who are learning English. It has many complex processes such as prewriting, drafting, editing, and revising. Based on the KTSP (school based curriculum), the most recent curriculum used in schools in Indonesia, takes the genre approach. One of the genres introduced in the eighth year of junior high school is recount text. In fact, the writer found some problems in conveying the English material to the students. Besides structure and vocabulary, the students get difficulties in generating idea. Because of those, an effort done to solve the problem is by using Basic Questioning. Basic Questioning can help the students to organize their thoughts. It is effective way to improve the ability in writing recount text. The purposes of this study are to find out, first, the ability in writing recount text of the eighth grade students of MTs Mathali’ul Fallah Langgenharjo Juwana in the academic year 2011/2012 who are before being taught by using Basic Questioning. The second, the ability in writing recount text of the eighth grade students of MTs Mathali’ul Fallah Langgenharjo Juwana in the academic year 2011/2012 who are taught by using Basic Questioning. The third is to find out whether there is significant difference between the ability in writing recount text of the eighth grade students of MTs mathali’ul Fallah langgenharjo Juwana in the academic year 2011/2012 who are before and after being taught by using Basic Questioning. Subject of this research were eighth grade students of MTs Mathali’ul Fallah Langgenharjo Juwana in the academic year 2011/2012 with the total number of population was 50 students they are all of eighth grade students. The design of this research is experimental research. The instrument used to collect the data is written test. The result of this study shows that the students’ ability in writing recount text before being taught by using Basic Questioning is sufficient (Mean 60.74 and Standard deviation 4.52). Meanwhile, the students’ ability in writing recount text after being taught by using Basic Questioning is good (Mean 78.1 and Standard deviation 5.64). From this data result, it can be shown that the score of post test is higher than pretest. The result of t-observation is higher than t-table that uses level of significant 5% (17.89>2.02). Based on the findings some recommendations are proposed. English teacher should use Basic Questioning as prewriting technique in process of learning English. The writer also recommends the students to apply Basic Questioning to help them improving their writing ability.