IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH DIARY WRITING AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF MTS ISTIQLAL KUBUHITU LAMPUNG AT THE SECOND SEMESTER IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020

NOVARIANA, SYARIFAH (2021) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH DIARY WRITING AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF MTS ISTIQLAL KUBUHITU LAMPUNG AT THE SECOND SEMESTER IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is one of the four language skills that plays a very important role in language learning. Writing is important because the learners can express their ideas, feeling, and experiences in certain place, time, and situation in written form. This research was aimed to find out the improving of diary writing technique in students‟ writing ability in recount text. The backgroud of the study in this research was based on the students‟ difficulties in comprehending writing recount text. In order to solve this problem the teacher should have creative activity, and diary writing technique can be an alternative way as a learning media that will make students enjoy and easy to write. In this research, the researcher conducted a classroom action research as the methodology of this research in the Eighth grade of MTS Istiqlal Kubuhitu Lampung in academic year of 2019/2020. The subject of this research was B class which consist of 35 students. The researcher conducted two cycles of action and involved four steps namely planning, action, observation, and reflection. The researcher used written observation, interview and test in collecting the data. The using of observation was to monitor students‟ activities during teaching and learning process. The using of interview was to know the problems in writing lesson and was to know how far the action improving the students‟ writing ability. The using of written test was to measure the students‟ ability in writing recount text after giving the treatment. After the data were analyzed, it was found that the result of the test after each cycle showed that there was significant improvement in students‟ writing ability, especially in writing recount text. The mean score of the pre-test was 60.42, it improved into 73.17 from test in cycle I, and it improved into 80.14 from test in cycle II. And the students were more interested in learning writing recount text. Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that there were the students improvement in writing ability in recount text by using diary writing at the second semester of the eight grade of MTS Istiqlal Kubuhitu Lampung in the academic year of 2019/2020. Key words: Diary Writing, Classroom Action Research, Writing Ability

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