THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write)
GAME FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Degree of S. Pd.
By:
NURLIANA FITRIYANTI (1001050011)
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
MOTTO
Do the best and don't be afraid to make the
mistake because from the mistake we can
get the truth
DEDICATION
This thesis is dedicated to:
My beloved MOM (Mama Yuniatun),
Thank you for your endless love, prayer and support that make me realize that
I have to be the best for you. I LOVE YOU MOM……..
My beloved DADDY (Bapak Sutrisno),
You have given me love, support and prayer until now. I always love and
remember you all the time. I LOVE YOU DAD……
Thanks for everything.
My beloved brother (Cholil Nur Efendi) and my beloved sister (Kurnia Nur Hidayah), Thank you for your affection, I know you how much love me and
care about me, all of you give me prayer and support.
My beloved friends in English Department (Mba Vian, Nana, Velis, Imeh,,
Yayuk, Hana, Ayu, Eni, Hani, Egy, Umi, Anggi, Endah, Sifa, Fani, Wahid,
Rian, and others), Thanks for your support, spirit, and joke. I‟ll always miss
you friends….
My beloved friends in Srikandi Cost (Eccal, Mba dewi, Teteh, Dewi Kun, Uly,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all the writer would like to say thanks to Alloh SWT, who always
give his guidance, mercy, permission, and never let her go without his revelation, so that the writer could finish her thesis as the partial fulfillment to get S.Pd
Degree at the English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of University Muhammadiyah of Purwokerto.
The writer wishes to express her great appreciation and special thanks to: 1. Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of
Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto for the encouragement to do this
thesis.
2. Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum, the Head of the English Department of
Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto for assisting the writer in
accomplishing the research.
3. Drs. Bambang Suroso, M.Hum, as the consultant who has given guidance,
suggestion, and helpful correction patiently.
4. Drs. Runtut Pramono, the Headmaster of SMP N 1 Kutasari who has given
permission to conduct the research.
5. Sari Wahyuningrum, S.Pd, the English teacher of SMP N 1 Kutasari who has
given helping to conduct the research.
6. All of the Seventh grade students of SMP N 1 Kutasari who have given good
7. Beloved mother, father, brothers, sisters, and friends who were always in my
side, from them I got inspiration and motivation to do this thesis. 8. All of my friends who helped and gave aids to finish this thesis.
Last but not least, the writer hopes that this thesis will give some
contributions to the English teacher, English Department students and all the readers. The writer believes that there are still many weaknesses in this thesis. Therefore, the writer accepts constructive suggestions and criticism happily to
make this thesis perfect.
Purwokerto, 23 July 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER II: THEORITICAL REVIEW ... 8
A. Writing Skill ... 8
1. Definition of Writing Skill ... 8
2. The Importance of Writing... 8
3. Teaching Writing ... 10
4. Problem of Learning Writing ... 11
5. Component Influencing Writing ... 13
2. Function of Descriptive Text ... 16
3. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text... 16
4. Language Features of Descriptive Text... 17
C. CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write) game ... 18
1. Definition of CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write) Game ... 18
2. The Advantages CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write) Game ... 20
3. Teaching writing on Descriptive text using CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write) Game ... 20
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 47
A. Conclusion ... 47
B. Suggestion ... 47
REFERENCES ... 49
THE LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix A 1. The List of Students’ Name of Experiment Class 2. The List of Students’ Name of Control Class
3. The Students’ Pre-test Score in Experimental Class
4. The Students’ Post-test Score in Experimental Class
5. The Students’ Pre-test Score in Control Class
6. The Students’ Post-test Score in Control Class
7. The students’ Score of Experiment Class and Control Class
(Measurement of t-Value) 8. t-test Computation
9. t-table
Appendix B 1. Pre-test and Post-test 2. Lesson Plan
Appendix C 1. Students’ result
ABSTRACT
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CSW (Catch, Speak, and Write) GAME FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
By:
NURLIANA FITRIYANTI 1001050011
The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of CSW (catch, speak, and write) game for teaching descriptive writing at SMP Negeri 1 Kutasari in academic year 2013-2014.
This research was a quasi-experiment. The population of this research was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kutasari. There were eight classes which consist of 32-35 students, so the total numbers of the students were 275. In this research, there were two classes that were taken as the sample. Class VII G as the control class and class VII H as the experiment class. The treatment was done from 14th - 30th April 2014 at SMP Negeri 1 Kutasari. The writer used test (pre-test and post-(pre-test) to collect the data, and t-(pre-test was used to analyze the data.
In this research, the data were analyzed by using computation to know the effectiveness of CSW (catch, speak, and write) game. The result was that t-test higher than t-table. The result showed that the pre-test’s mean score of experiment class was 47. 65, while the pre-test’s mean of control class was 47. 32. The
post-test’s mean score of experiment class was 74. 75, while the post-test’s mean score
