IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT USING LEARNING CYCLE MODEL (A Classroom Action Research at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus in Academic Year 2013/2014)
Daftar Isi:
- The effect of English as lingua franca is that English is carried out in education. It is prioritized on four skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Therefore, students are hoping to be able to perform language skill such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. However, for the students, writing is the most difficult subject. Writing becomes important when mass communication media mostly are in form of writing. Talking about writing means we talk about genre. There are many kinds of genre that students should know but the most familiar one is procedure text. The mastery of this genre becomes important since it is closely related to their daily life. The objective of this research is to find out whether learning cycle model can encourage students to improvestudents’ ability in writing procedure text of the seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Kudus inacademic year 2013/2014. The design of the research is classroom action research.This research consists of two cycles and each of cycles has the instrument. They are: observation and test. Besides that, the writer also applied the research design in every cycle as follows: planning, action, observation,and reflection. The data of this research was taken from the result of written test and the observation sheets of those two cycles conducted. The findings of the research showed that: (1) on the first cycle, there were 18 (78.26%) students who had got scores under the criteria minimalscore of 75. The mean score was 60.65 as sufficient categorized. The students’ enthusiasm and activeness were not observable appear yet when being taught by using Learning Cycle Model in writing. (2) On second cycle, the total students who had got scores under the criteria minimal score got down from 18 (78.26%) to 7 (30.43%) and the mean score was 83.69 as good categorized. The students’ enthusiasm and activeness were increased. The students were more active and creative in writing activity. Teacher can control teaching learning well. The result of the research shows that the learning cycle model can improve students’ ability in writing procedure text. The mean score of students increased from 60.65 to 83.69. The percentage of average score from the first cycle to the second cycle was 72.17%. The students are enthusiastic, interested, and motivated to write procedure text by using learning cycle model. Thus, a teacher should be creative to use a various model in English teaching moreover in teaching writing. In choosing the model, the teacher should pay attention to the material will be given. It is also hoped that there will be further research to improve the students’ ability in writing procedure text.