IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PERSONAL LETTER WRITING SKILLS THROUGH WRITING PROCESS APPROACH (A Classroom Action Research of the eleventh grade Students at SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta Semester 1, Academic Year of 2019/2020)

Ninik, Nurhayati (2020) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PERSONAL LETTER WRITING SKILLS THROUGH WRITING PROCESS APPROACH (A Classroom Action Research of the eleventh grade Students at SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta Semester 1, Academic Year of 2019/2020). Masters thesis, Universitas Widya Dharma Klaten.

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Ninik Nurhayati 1881100004. Improving Student’s Personal Letter Writing Skills Through Writing Process Approach. A Classroom Action Research at the eleventh grade Students XI ST.1 at SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta Semester 1, Academic Year of 2019/2020. A Thesis. Language Education Department Graduate Program of Widya Dharma University Klaten 2020. This research is aimed to improve the students’ personal letter writing skills. It is assumed that the Writing Process Approach will be effective to improve the students’ writing skills. Thus is a Classroom Action Research (CAR), conducted in class XI ST.1 at SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta Semester 1, Academic Year of 2019/2020. It was conducted in two cycles. Every cycle consisted of: planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Each meeting consisted of five steps: 1) prewriting, 2) drafting, 3) revising, 4) proof reading and 5) publishing. The researcher used two techniques in collecting the data - test and non-test. The data collected in this study were qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were taken through observation and interview. The observation were written in the form of field notes, which were obtained from the daily observation, while the quantitative data were obtained by doing pre-test and post-test. The researcher followed the five stages proposed by Burns (2010: 105) The findings show that the use of Writing Process Approach, can improve the students’ writing skill of XI ST.1 SMK Negeri 8 Surakarta 2019/2020. It could be seen that the students were more active, enjoyed to study and students’ involvement in group discussions, attention and enthusiasm in learning personal letter text increased significantly. It could be seen that from 48% attention 18% entusiasm in prelimenary increased to 74% and 66% in the first cycle and increased again to 92 % and 85 % of students’ attention and enthusiasm in the second cycle. The role of teacher’s guide to the students in doing the task is decreased significantly. It means that the students can be more independent in doing the tasks in the learning process of writing personal letter. The result of the implementation of Writing Process Approach could improve the students’ writing skill, the students are successful in achieving the passing grade of 75. Based on the empirical data, here are the improvement between the results of students’ mean scores in five aspects, by Tribble (1996: 130 –131) namely contents, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. From the students’ pre- test mean score in term of content was 3,20 increased to 3.63. Meanwhile, the organization score was 3,04 increased to 3,50 in the vocabulary score was 2,67 increased to 3,37 in the post-test. In the language use, their pre-test score was 2.69 increased significantly to 3.48 in the post-test. While the students’ mean score in term of mechanics were 2.83 increased to 3.37 in the post-test. Finally, all the students had been successful in gaining the passing grade score in personal letter. So, it is necessary to develop and to apply writing process approach in the learning process for writing skill. Key word : Writing skill, Writing Process Approach, Personal Letter

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Program Pasca Sarjana > Pendidikan Bahasa
Depositing User:	Unwidha Perpustakaan Unwidha
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2020 06:04
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2020 06:04
URI:	http://repository.unwidha.ac.id/id/eprint/2152

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