TY - THES KW - improving KW - writing skill KW - process writing approach KW - SMA Y1 - 2013/10/25/ ID - UNY25697 PB - Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta TI - IMPROVING WRITING SKILL BY USING PROCESS WRITING APPROACH FOR GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 KASIHAN BANTUL YOGYAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/ 2013 A1 - Wibowo, Arya Budi AV - public M1 - skripsi N2 - This research was aimed at improving the students? writing skill in class X E of SMA N 1 Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta in the academic year of 2012/ 2013 by using process writing approach. This research was an action research study. There were two types of data collected in this study, namely qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were used to describe the progress of the actions. These data were obtained from the daily observation which the results of the observation were written in the form of field notes, interviews, and discussions with the students of X E, English teacher, and the collaborator. To support the qualitative data, the quantitative data were in the form of number. The quantitative data were obtained by doing pre-test and posttest. The result of the research showed that process writing approach could improve the students? writing skill in class X E of SMA N 1 Kasihan Bantul Yogyakarta. The students became more active and enjoyable in the teaching and learning process. All of them were able to write in right steps and they were more enthusiastic in joining the lesson. Furthermore, there was also improvement in students? achievement. It can be seen from the result of students? mean scores in five aspects, namely vocabulary, contents, language use, organization, and mechanics. From the students? pre-test mean score in term of vocabulary was 2.53 increased to 3.21. Meanwhile, in the content score was 3.00 increased to 4.00 in the post-test. In the language use, their pre-test score was 2.96 increased to 3.80 in the post-test. In addition, the students? mean score in term of mechanics were 2.31 increased to 3.00 in the post-test, and in the term of organization their scores increased from 2.25 to 3.33. The result of the quantitative analysis indicates that the improvement of students? writing skill was significantly gained. UR - http://eprints.uny.ac.id/25697/ ER -