IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING
PROCEDURAL PARAGRAPH THROUGH
DEMONSTRATION METHOD
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department, in Partial Fulfillment of Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By:
LINDA KOMARIAH
Registration Number: 209321010
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, the writer would like to express thank to Allah, the beneficent, the merciful. All praises be to Allah, the lord of the worlds. Who has given the health, protection, knowledge and opportunity to the writer in
completing this “Thesis”. May Allah’s peace and blessing be upon His final
Prophet and Messenger, Muhammad, his family and his companions.
This Thesis is presented to the English Department of Faculty Languages and Arts, State University of Medan as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of first strata.
Alhamdulillah, the writer has finished this thesis. Absolutely it is not only an effort by her self alone, there are many hands help her. In this occasion, she presents great honor to :
1. Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si, the Rector of State University of Medan. 2. Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, the Dean of Faculty Languages and Arts.
3. Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English Department and also her academic consultant and her reviewers, Rika, S.Pd, M.Hum, the Secretary of English Department.
4. Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed, the Head of English Education Study Program.
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6. Dr. Siti Aisyah Ginting, M. Pd and Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd, as her Reviewers has given time to support and guidance in correcting and helping her in finishing this thesis.
7. All lecturers who have taught her in this English Department, for giving new knowledge, advices in facing life, and for giving gorgeous study experiences. Mam Eis for helping her in settling the administration procedures.
8. Dra. Hj. Nuriah, M.S, M.A, the Head Master of SMP N 2 BABALAN thanks for her permission and opportunity in allowing the writer to do observation and collect data. Maria Edita Sihombing, S.Pd the English teacher, all teacher and the students, thanks for their support.
9. The most special persons in her life, her beloved, dad and mom “Amir Husin and Armina ritonga ”, who have given their support during her study and her writing thesis. Thank you for your kindness and you are so patience and also her sister, Mariam, and my little brother Surya Syahbana.
10. Thanks for all the student of Ext class and Regular class A,B, and C ’09. Especially my lovely class Ext C ’09. For all of her beloved best friends, who has always been in the researcher side in the facing all the laugher. To any others persons who can not be mentioned one by one to their any contribution to the writer during finishing her thesis.
Medan, February 2014 The Writer,
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ABSTRACT
Komariah, Linda. Improving Students’ Achievement in Writing Procedural Paragraph Through Demonstration Method. A Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan. 2014.
This study concerns with improving grade VIII students’ achievement in writing procedural Paragraph through demonstration method. This research was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of the study was grade VIII students of SMP N 2 Babalan which consisted of 35 students. The instruments for collecting data were primary data (writing test) and secondary data (interview sheet, observation sheet and questionnaire sheet). Based on writing scores, students’ score kept improving in every evaluation. In the test I the mean was 64,91, in the test II the mean was 74,57 . Based on interview, observation, and questionnaire sheet, it was found that teaching-learning process ran well. Students were active, creative to give their idea, enthusiastic, and interested in writing. The finding of the research showed that applying demonstration method
significantly improved students’ writing achievement.
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1. Generic Structure of Procedural Paragraph... 12
2. Example of Procedural Paragraph... 12
3. The Language Features... 13
D. Demonstration Method... 13
1. The Advantages of Demonstration Method... 15
2. The Rule of Playing Demonstration Method... 15
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CHAPTER IV: DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 29
A. The Data ... 29
1. The Primary Data ...
292. The Secondary Data ... 31
B. Data Analysis ... 31
1. Analysis of Primary Data ... 31
2. Analysis of Secondary Data ... 37
a The Activity of the First Cycle ... 38
b. The Activity of the Second Cycle ... 40
C. Research Finding ... 40
D. Discussion... 41
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ... 43
A. Conclusion ... 43
B. Suggestion ... 43
REFERENCES . ... 45
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.4. Indicator of Success... 28
Table 4.1. Students’ Scores in Test I, II, and II... 30
Table 4.2. The Range Score... 32
Table 4.3. Students Passing the standard Test (75)... 33
Table 4.4. The Improvement of Students’ Writing Test Score... 35
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LIST OF FIGURE
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
Nowadays English is very important for us, because English is one of foreign language. It has been introduced to the educational institutions, from elementary school to university level as an obliged subject to learn. Therefore, the purpose of learn English commonly defined in term of four language skills namely listening, reading, speaking, and writing. In additional, Writing is a way of communicating a message to a reader for a purpose. The purposes of writing are to express one’s self, to provide information for one’s reader, to persuade
one’s reader, and to create a literary work. (Troyka 1987:3-4)
We know that Indonesia’s students having an important role on itself
-evidence in every lifestyle.Furthermore, for students, writing has become a necessary skill to master since it frequently determines their academic success. Therefore, every student has to learn how to write effectively.Unfortunately, indonesian students’ writing in English still lack. It means that the students are not
able to write English well. They can not use the good word, grammar in writing. Hafni (1991:1) declares, “that not many students could write paragraph well.
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In fact, most of students always get troubles when they are asked to write English especially in Junior High School (SMP), they think that writing is a difficult task: therefore they do not interest in writing or in other words the students’ motivation in writing decreases. It is proven from the fact that most of
the students cannot write a simple writing. As a result, they always get bad scores in their writing. Students of Junior High School must be able to understand kinds of writing text based on the Curriculum, one of kinds of writing is Procedure text. Procedure text is the text that described how something is accomplished through a sequence of action steps, and also texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the photocopier, the fax, etc.
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the KKM. So that’s why to solve all of the problems, the application of teaching
method it is very important.
Here the writer chooses Demonstration Method to solve the problems. Demonstration Method as the teaching method that teach all of the students by demonstrating goods, events, either directly or through the use of teaching aids relevant to the subject matter or material being presented. Demonstrations in the form of writing assignments helped members to build up their fund of knowledge and wisdom about writing. (Rebecca Mlynarczyk : 1997)
From the explanation above, the writer conclud that Demonstration Method is very suitable to be applied to improve students’ achievement in writing
procedure paragraph. Because Demonstration Method refers to show the process or ways of working an object, and Procedure text refers to describe how to make something by steps or process. It means that related between Demonstration Method and writing procedure. Then the writer wants to express and explore students’ idea in making the best writing. So as the result, the writer wants to improve the students’ achievement in writing procedural paragraph through
Demonstration Method.
B.The Problem of the Study
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“Is the students’ writing achievement in procedural paragraph significantly improved if they are taught by applying Demonstration Method?”
C. The Objective of the Study
The objective of this study is intended to describe the improvement of the students’ writing skills in writing procedural paragraph through demonstration
method.
D.The Scope of the Study
In this study the writer focuses on applying Demonstration Method as the teaching method in teaching writing, especially writing procedural text that improve students’ procedural writing. Procedural text is taught in the Eight year
students of Junior High School.
E.The Significance of the Study
Findings of the study is expected to be useful and relevant theoritically and practically.
1. Theoretically, the finding of the study is expected to increase the theories of writing.
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a. This research as preference can improve student’s knowledge and increase student’s interest in learning English with enjoyable in writing
procedural paragraph.
b. The English improve their ability to conduct better and the teacher can evaluate clearly what the result of teaching English language uses the Demonstration method in teaching writing.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data, it was found out that there was an improvement
of students’ achievement in writing procedure paragraph if it is taught by using
Demonstration Method. It is showed from the mean of the students’ scores in six tests: test I (64.91), test II (74.57), and test III (83.37). It means that the use of Demonstration Method could improve the students’ achievement in writing procedure paragraph.
The observation sheet, interview sheet, and questionnaire sheet, supported
by students’ actives record, indicate that there was an improvement in students’
abilities. It is shown that most of students became more active and it is strengthened by the improvement of their writing scores.
It can be concluded that the application of Demonstration Method could
improve the students’ achievement in writing procedure paragraph.
B.Suggestions
Based on the result of this study, the use of the Demonstration Method
could improve the students’ achievement in writing procedural paragraph. The
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1. For other teachers, it’s better to apply Demonstration Method in teaching procedural paragraph because by applying Demonstration Method the students more enjoyable and hopefully the students’ score in writing is higher than before.
2. For the students; they are suggested to use demonstration method in discussing writing material because make them easier to understand and develop their ideas in writing Procedural Paragraph.
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