USING PICTURES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 06 DAU MALANG
Main Author: | FEBRYANTO, NUZUL |
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Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
Bahasa: | eng |
Terbitan: |
, 2012
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Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/29313/1/jiptummpp-gdl-nuzulfebry-29442-1-introduc-n.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/29313/2/jiptummpp-gdl-nuzulfebry-29442-2-chapteri.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/29313/ |
Daftar Isi:
- As one of the English skills, writing has an important role in teaching and learning process. Writing is a student’s way to express their feeling through words or symbols that will be conveyed to others. Unfortunately, many problems are still found by teachers when they teach writing in the class. They found their students often use incorrect grammar, had lack of vocabularies, and faced difficulties to write a good paragraph. It is the task of teachers to solve these problems by selecting suitable techniques in teaching writing. However selecting a suitable technique is not easy because not all techniques are applicable and suitable for their class. Such problems also happened at SMP muhammadiyah 06 Dau Malang. So, the researcher offers the solution by using picture to improve students’ writing skill at SMP Muhammadiyah 06 Dau Malang. Based on the statement above, the statement of the problem is whether the used of picture improve students’ skill in writing at SMP Muhammadiyah 06 Dau, Malang. The data obtained from this study are expected to be useful for the teachers, schools and other researchers. The scope of this study is using Picture to improve students’ skill in writing, while the limitation of this study is on the use of pictures to improve students’ skill of writing descriptive texts. The design of this research was classroom action research. The design of classroom utilized in this study involved the spiral of planning, action and observing, reflecting and revised plan. The study showed that “Technique in Using Pictures” was success in improving students’ skill in writing. This technique made all of the students easy to write. It was caused by the used of such technique. Pictures provided not only shared experience for students, but also helped them to focus on the picture. Besides, pictures provided a lot of varieties of task.