Desitawardhani, Nurika (2014) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF WRITING EXPLANATION TEXTS THROUGH PICTURE SERIES FOR THE GRADE XII STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 SLEMAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/ 2014. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This study was aimed at improving the students’ writing skills of the Grade XII Science 1 at SMA N 2 Sleman through picture series. Based on the preliminary observation, there were some problems in the teaching and learning process of writing. They deal with students’ writing skills related to students’ participation, motivation, ability in generating and developing the idea, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization. The solution for these problems was applying picture series with the various tasks in the teaching and learning process. This actions research consisted of two cycles. Each cycle had three and two meetings respectively. The subjects of the research were the students of Grade XII Science 1, the English teacher and the researcher. The data collection techniques were observation, interview and tests. The data were in the forms of field notes, interview transcripts and scores of pre – and post – tests. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The researcher analyzed the qualitative data through three steps: 1) reducing, 2) displaying, and 3) verifying the data. In this research, there were two ways employed in analyzing the quantitative data: 1) mean value and 2) standard deviation. The validity of the research was accomplished by adopting five criteria of validity: 1) democratic validity, 2) outcome validity, 3) process validity, 4) catalytic validity and 5) dialogic validity. The result of the research shows that the use of picture series and the supporting materials improved the students’ writing skills. Based on the qualitative data, the students could develop their ideas to produce an explanation text with better vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization. They also enthusiastically joined the teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, their involvement in writing improved because the series of pictures could attract the students’ attention. Based on the quantitative data, the students’ mean value for the writing skills improved. In the pre – test, the students’ mean value was 48.36. Then, after Cycle 1 (post – test 1), the students’ mean value of post – test 1 was 67.70. At last, after Cycle 2 (post – test 2), the students’ mean value in the post – test 2 was 77.50.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | writing, pisture series, SMA |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2015 02:59 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 23:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/20422 |
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