IMPROVING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING GUIDED QUESTIONS IN THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMKN 1 NGASEM KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015
Author (Penulis)
SRI DEVI AGASTUTIK
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
11.1.01.08.0191
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Sri Devi Agastutik,2015. Improving Writing Descriptive text Using Guided Questions in the Tenth Grade Students of SMKN 1 NGASEM in Academic Year 2014 / 2015. Skripsi, University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. English Department, September, 2015.
Key word : Writing, Descriptive text, Guided Questions
Writing is one of the language skills that should be taught besides the other skill. Based on the curriculum of vocational high school reccomended by the goverment, there are some text which taught in the school. One of the text is descriptive text. Descriptive text is the text which describe something, someone, situation and etc. In writing descriptive text students got difficulties in produce their idea.
This research used action research with two cycles. Each cycle has four steps. They are planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The subject of this research is the tenth grade students at SMKN 1 Ngasem. There are thirty three students in this class that contains of twenty two female students and eleven male students. This action research was done from the 26th of April 2015 until 4th of May 2015
The result of this research showed that using Guided Questions in the first cycle didn’t work well, there were some of the student who were not active in the class and got the scores under the <70 . So the writer would make little game to getting interest by the students but the teacher here still used Guided Questions method in teaching learning process. To get the better mark than before, the teacher made the discussion and more care with students in the second cycle. Beside that the teacher combined this method with a game in order that the students got interested in joining the class. Here the result of the student’s score could increase
Finally the research result and the implementation of Guided Questions as follows: 1) The increasing of the student’s score can be found in the student’s score at the second cycle that increase From 60.15 become 76,21. 2) The step of Guided Questions are : Think about your subject (By’’subject ‘’it means any event , person, problem, project, idea,or issue. In other words,anything you might right about) then Start with the first question and move right and move right through the list. Next try to answer each question at least briefly with a word or phrase. The last, Write your response quickly without much planning.