Retnaningsih, Ndaru (2013) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS THROUGH THE USE OF GUIDED WRITING IN CLASS XI OF SMK N 1 PANDAK BANTUL IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/ 2013. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The aim of this research is to improve the students’ writing skills through the use of guided writing in class XI APKJ of SMKN I Pandak Bantul in the academic year of 2012/2013. Based on the identification of the problems done through observation and interviews, the students had some problems in writing skills. The problems were dealing with content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. They also had low motivation in writing. This research was an action research study that consisted of two cycles. The subjects of the study were the students of class XI APKJ of SMKN I Pandak in the academic year of 2012/2013. The data of this study were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were collected by observing the teaching-learning process during the implementation of the actions and interviewing the students and the collaborator about the implemented actions. The qualitative data were in the forms of field notes and interview transcripts. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were collected by assessing the students’ writing works at the end of each cycle. The quantitative data were in the form of students’ writing scores. The results of this study show that the implementation of guided writing technique can improve the students’ writing skills. Through guided writing, the students can generate their ideas easily, organize their paragraph appropriately, and write a text by using correct vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. In addition, the implementation of guided writing can also improve students’ motivation to write. Meanwhile, the different result of students’ mean scores of tests between Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 showed that there were some improvements. The students’ content scores improved from 2.76 to 3.7. The students’ organization scores increased from 2.63 to 3.1. The students’ vocabulary scores improved from 2.24 to 3.1. The students’ language use scores increased from 2.4 to 3.1. The students’ mechanics scores improved from 2.1 to 2.6. The improvement could also be seen from the students’ score in the conversion table analysis. The number of the students who were excellent increased from zero in Cycle 1 to six in Cycle 2. Moreover, there were no students who were poor in Cycle 2. This implies that the implementation of guided writing technique improves the students’ writing skills.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | improving, writing skills, guided writing, SMK |
| 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: | 31 Aug 2015 04:15 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2019 03:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/25672 |
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