Author (Penulis)

SITI FATMAWATI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0188

Abstract

ABSTRACT Siti Fatmawati: Enhanching Students’ Achievement in Writing Text Using Group Investigation Method in the Eleventh Year Students of SMKN 2 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015, Skripsi, English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Nusantara PGRI Kediri University, 2015. Keywords: classroom action research (car), group investigation (gi), method, teaching learning process, writing, instruction text Writing is considered by students as difficult skill to be studied. They do not realize that communication can be transferred through writing. Consequently, they writes without purpose and in disorder way. They only write what is inside their head down in the paper and ignoring what actually their purpose is, its grammatical and the vocabbulary use. Group Investigation (GI) is an organizational approach that allows a class to work actively and collaboratively in small groups and enables students to take an active role in determining their own learning goals and processes. GI is interesting so that the students will feel the new atmosphere in classroom and they are interested in learning writing. This study is aimed to investigate the implementation of GI to enhance the students’ writing ability. This study was conducted by using classroom action research that has two cycles within. The subject of the research was the students of eleventh year SMKN 2 Kediri which consisted of 35 students. The instruments of collecting data were quantitative (writing test) and qualitative data (observation sheet, and field notes). Questionnaire and interview being used by the researcher to know deeply the problem faced by the students then she analyzed them to find the appropriate method. Based on the writing test scores, the students’ score kept improving in every test. In the pre-liminary study, there was only 43% of the students who passed the minimum standard score. After giving treatment to the students using GI, there was an enhancement towards the students writing. There was 91% of the students passed the test in cycle 1 and 100% of the students passed the test in cycle 2. Based on the observation sheet and field notes, it was found that the learning process of writing run well. The students can be more active in group work and they can follow the process of writing well-ordered by implemented the steps of GI. They could follow the step of writing process from (1) topic selection, (2) cooperative planning, (3) implementation, (4) analysis and synthesis, (5) presentation of final project, and (6) evaluation. The result of the research showed that GI method could enhance students’ achievement in writing instruction text. It was suggested to modify and makes the GI method to be more interesting and suitable towards the skill and topic of the study.

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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