USING THINK-PAIR-SHARE (TPS) TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING CREATIVITY (A Classroom Action Research in the Second Semester Students of STKIP Siliwangi Bandung)

This research was held during the internship at SMPK BPK PENABUR Cimahi by taking the material taught in English lesson for 8th grade students at first semester. The objective of this research is to find out the improvement of writing imperative sentence using Project-Based Learning approach. The use of Project Based Learning approach suited with the Kurikulum 2013, which has been used by this school since 2013. The method used Classroom Action Research (CAR), which held on two cycles for seven meetings. Each cycle covered the step of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data was collected from test and observation. The data from test showed that treatments are successful in improving writing imperative sentences skill for the students. The improvements covered two points, (1) improvement on their mean score. Mean score of pre-test was 54.967, mean score of post-test1was 64.467 and mean score of post-test2 was 80.033. (2) Improvement of their behaviors. Their activeness individually and participation in the group indicated that the Project Based Learning approach was the right approach to be applied in the classroom teaching. Keywords: CAR, Project-Based Learning Approach, Writing Skill

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Project-Based Learning Approach to Improve Students’ Writing Skill

Zulaeha

Marpaung²

2020

“…In this study, the data was analyzed by using the constant comparative method as suggested by Strauss and Glasser in Lincoln and Guba (1985, as cited in Mundriyah andParmawati, 2016).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reading can not be separated from daily activities. People read many kinds written materials According to Parmawati (2016), English is used in many activities either orally or in written form. There are many fields which can be seen dealing with the role of English, such as: technology, health, tourism, correspondence, etc.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Students’ Vocabulary Using Poster Media for Second Grade Hearing Disable at Smalb

Sa'adah

Atikah

2019

The objective of the study is to improve vocabulary in children with special need. The researchers have chosen the object in the school because, the school has lack of learning media and teachers. This research used the "Poster" as a media, in addition the poster can make the students more interest to learn. The researchers using Poster media with a carton paper converted into a tree viewer and students are required to fill in a blank section of the tree shape based on a pre-existing question on the poster containing the Vocabulary subject Noun and Verb. Vocabulary with visuals so that they are easier to learn which tend to be limited by the ability they (deaf students) have. The researchers used Class room Action Research (CAR).The steps in action research (planning, action, observation, and reflection) are done in a cycle. This method is one of the active learning strategy by involving students to always study English learning especially The results of this research showed that the poster media can improve the vocabulary of the students and the students more interested to learn vocabulary.

“…The researcher interested to analyze and focus on the writing ability of the students'. Angelo (1980:1) as cited in Mundriyah & Parmawati (2016) says that writing will remain valuable in education because writing can help people think critically, to clarify thoughts, and deeper perceptions. Harmer (2007) as cited in Harmenita & Tiarina (2013) said that writing can be defined as writing-for learning and writing and writing-for-writing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Clustering Technique to Improve Students’ Skill in Writing Descriptive Text

Hanafiawi

Muharam²,

Parmawati³

2020

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Students have to learn the four basic language skill, they are listening, reading, writing, speaking. One of the most important skill that is Writing. It can make students to share the ideas into written form in the text or paragraph with the right order of generic structure. The purpose of this research was to find out the improving of students writing skill of descriptive text using clustering technique at seventh grade students of SMPN 11 Cimahi in the Academic Year of 2018 – 2019. This research used Classroom Action Research. The research was carried out in two cycles and each cycle consisted of four steps, they are Planning, Action, Observation, and Reflection. Most of the students gradually gained good scores at the end of each cycles. The students responses showed that they interested to learn writing.The score of Minimum Mastery Criterion of English lesson was 75. The Students mean score of pretest 45,7. The mean score in postest 1 was 53,7. The mean score of posttest 2 was 79,3. From this result, the researcher concludes that teaching descriptive text using clustering technique can improve their writing ability and the atmosphere of the class was more alive. Keywords: CAR, Writing Skill