IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT
IN WRITING
NEWS ITEM TEXT BY USING VIDEO
A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By:
Ahmad Rifa’i Ritonga
Registration Number: 209421001
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
▸ Baca selengkapnya: contoh news item text dan soalnya
(2)LE MBAR P ENGESAHAN P E MBIMBING
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Dinvatakan telah mcmenuhi persyaratan untuk memperoleh Gel ar Sarj ana Pendidi kan
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, the writer would like to express his greatest thanks to Allah SWT, the Almighty and Most Beneficial for His Grace, Guidance, Praise, Honor and Mercy that has been given to her especially health and luck until this thesis could be completed. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements of obtain the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan (S1) at the English Department, Faculty of language and arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis could have been completed also because of guidance, encouragement, suggestions, and comments from some people for whom the writer would like to extend his sincere and special thanks to:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Language and Arts, Vice Dean I, II, III, and all the administrative staff.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English and Literature spent and advice in correcting and supervising his thesis.
Dr. Rahmad Husein, M.Ed., and Dr. Siti Aisah Ginting, M.Pd., thanks are given to the reviewers of his Seminar Proposal, and comment enrich the quality of this thesis.
Drs. H. Anwar A.A., the Headmaster of MAN 2 Model Medan and all teachers who have helped the writer in collecting data.
Drs. Agus Ritonga and Dra. Asmi, S.Pd, his beloved parents. And his beloved sister Alhamidatul Wardah Ritonga and Azizah Hayati Ritonga for their great love, prayers, and support in finishing this thesis.
ABSTRACT
Ahmad Rifa’i Ritonga. 209421001. Improving Students’ Achievement in Writing News Item Text by Using Video. A Thesis, English and Literature Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan 2014.
This study focuses on improving students’ achievement in writing news item text by using video as a media. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the grade X students of MAN 2 Model Medan. Thirty students were taken as the sample. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle was conducted in three meetings, and the second cycle was also conducted in three meetings. The instruments for collecting data were quantitative data (essay test) and qualitative data (observation sheet, diary note, and questionnaire sheet). Based on the data analysis, students’ score kept improving in every test. The mean of the students’ score in the first competence was 71.37, the second competence test was 75.74, and the third competence test was 82.4. The result showed that video improved students’ achievement in writing news item text.
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C.The instruments for Collecting Data... 25
1. Sources of Data ……….. 25
CHAPTER IV DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS A.The Data... 35
B. The Data Analysis... 36
C.Research Findings ... 43
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A.Conclussions ... 45
B. Suggestions ... 45
REFERENCES………. 47
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LIST OF TABLES
Table Pages
1.1 The Mean of Students’ Ability in Writing ... 2
3.1 The Scale Ranks for Questionnaire Sheet ... 26
3.2 Activities in Cycle 1 ... 28
3.3 The Analytic Scoring of Writing Test ... 30
4.1 The The Comparison of The Students’ Score in Three Competence Tests ... 40
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Pages
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix Pages
A. Lesson Plan ... 52
B. Lesson Material ... 60
C. The Score of Students ... 61
D. Interview ... 64
E. Transcription of Test ... 67
F. Diary Notes ... 75
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. THE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Writing is one of four main skills in learning language besides reading, listening, and speaking. Kellog (2009:6) states that writing is a means of thinking, as well as language production, emerges only after a decade or so of writing experience. Writing has similarity with speaking; both are activities of language production. The difference between both activities is on the product of language. The product of writing activity is written language in form of a text or a passage.
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information about newsworthy events of the day and other natural phenomena in an area; they can happen in regional area or in overseas. News item informs news worthy events of the day and other natural phenomena in the form of news.
Before deciding to focus on this research, the writer had an observation to make it sure that this research will be very useful; to make it sure that this research will give a solution for current problem that students have in learning English, especially in writing skill, specifically in writing a news item text.
Based on the writer‟s experience of observation in MAN 2 Model Medan
and teacher‟s explanation about weakness of the students in writing, it was found
that students of that school had some difficulties in writing an English text. The grade X – students have some errors in writing a news item text. The errors happened because they did not understand about the kind of text (genre). The phenomenon is seen in the table bellow.
Table 1.1 The mean of student‟s ability in writing taken from grade-X at MAN
2 MODEL MEDAN 2012-2013
Mean of students‟ ability in language skill
Semester
Reading Speaking Listening Writing
I 70 70 65 65
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Based on the data above, the writer found that the students‟ achievement in
English especially in writing is still low. However, if students understand about the kind of text (genre), it will be easier for them to write a text correctly in terms of social function (communicative purpose) of the text, rhetorical structure (organization) of the text, and also language feature (grammar) of the text.
It was also found that students have a difficulty in writing a text, including a news item text, because they do not have any idea about a topic that they will write about. Facing this situation, the writer tried to use a media that could help them to get some ideas in writing a news item text. The media used in the observation was video.
Video is widely available as a resource of language teaching. Fisher and Frey (2011) state that videos are used to transport students to locations across the world and to demonstrate concepts that cannot otherwise be practically illustrated in the classroom, and they are thought to provide more motivation and interest to students in learning a language.
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Based on the writer‟s experience of observation, the students were helped
by the existence of video as a media and a source that can motivate them and provide some prior knowledge. When the students have a prior knowledge and get some ideas, it will be easier for them to write a text. In the observation, students were divided into some groups, and then they watched a „silent‟ video. The video
did not sound, but it worked visually. The video contained of some news which happened in some countries in the world. After watching the „silent‟ video, the
students were asked to write down a text based on the visualization of the video that they watched. Previously, they had been taught about news item; the social function of a news item, the rhetorical structure of news item, and the language feature of news item. Finally, they wrote down a news item based on the video that they watched.
According to Harmer (2007:20) states that teacher‟s method in teaching
could be intrinsic motivation which motivates the students to learn. Therefore, it is important for teachers to gain some knowledge. A teacher has a responsibility to maximize students‟ achievement by using some media which are needed in the teaching and learning process, because media is a set of tools which can support students to reach the goal of a learning process. Because of the importance role of a media, teachers should be able to select an appropriate media for some specific skills; for example what kind of media that will be suitable for supporting
students‟ achievement on writing, specifically news item text.
In this observation, the media used was „silent‟ video; that is a video which
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a media of language learning on writing skill. If there is a sound such a conversation in the video, it will not be suitable for writing skill; it will be listening skill. Watching video in the class is always enjoyable for the students and it can motivate students to study seriously since the students are interested by watching a video.
B. THE PROBLEM OF THE STUDY
Based on the background above, the problem of study is formulated as follow.
“How to apply video to improve the students‟ ability in writing news item text?”
C. THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY
There are many learning activities that can be conducted by using video. In this study, it is limited only on the students‟ ability in writing a news item after watching a video in grade X at MAN 2 MODEL MEDAN.
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achievement in writing news item text by using video.
E. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings of this research are expected useful to have both theoretical
and practical importance in writing as a process and product, specifically the framework of writing.
1) Theoretically, the finding of the study is expected to master the theories of writing.
2) Practically, the finding of the study is expected useful for.
a. Writer; by having this research, the writer can investigate the improvement
of students‟ achievement on writing news item text by using video as a
media.
b. Teacher; through this research, teacher can find the effect of using video as a media in language teaching to improve students‟ achievement,
specifically on writing news item text.
c. Students; through this research, students can increase their motivation and mastery of writing news item text by using video as a media.
d. Others; this research can give them some data, sources about improving
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. ConclusionBased on the result of this research, the researcher could make the
conclusion that the application of video as a media could improve the student’s
achievement in writing news item text in the class X-12 at MAN 2 Model Medan. The improvement of the students can be seen from the score of the students in the tests.
Furthermore, from the qualitative data, the writer concluded that applying video could help the students to get involved in teaching learning process because the students felt interesting in a comfortable atmosphere in the class in following teaching learning process. And the last, students also got experience and knowledge from watching videos and the students could be easier to write a text without wasting time just to remember or gather the idea or topic that they will write.
B. Suggestion
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1. It is important for English teachers to apply video in teaching writing news item text since this media can improve students’ achievement in
writing news item text.
2. It is important for students to practice the writing by using video since it can improve the students’ interest in writing English text.
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