IMPROVING
STUDENTS’
ACHIEVEMENT
WRITING IN NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING
FACTUAL AND HISTORICAL METHOD
A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By:
SITI FATIMAH HARAHAP
Registration Number: 209321067
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, the writer would like say thanks to ALLAH SWT for the
blessings that the writer finally completed this thesis. Then, the writer doesn’t
forget to say thanks to Prophet Muhammad SAW, and especially for my parents
also.
This thesis is aimed at fulfilling one of the requirements for the degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan at English Department, Faculty Languages and Arts, State
University of Medan.
In completing this thesis, the writer encountered some difficulties but
many people helped her in facing them. So, the writer would like to express his
gratitude and love to:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts for her administrative assistance toward the prequisites of the thesis
submission.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd, the Head of English Department, and also her academic consultant, Rika, S.Pd., M.Hum, secretary of English
Department.
Dra. Masitowarni, M.Ed, the Head of English Education study program an also her reviewer requirements.
Drs. Bachtiar, M.Pd, her thesis adviser, who has given his time, support, guidance, kindness, contributions and patience in correcting and helping
her in finishing this thesis.
Drs. Muhammad Natsir, M.Hum, her examiner in proposal seminar and also thesis seminar. For his suggestion, comments and his time for this
thesis. And also Ibu Eis and Pak Hendra and Pak Parlin for their help to
Her beloved and especially parents, Irwan Harahap and Yusrah Nasution for their pray, soft heart, love, support, and everything they have
given to the writer not only in completing this thesis but also in all her life. His beloved brothers and Young sister, Muhammad Sahir Rangkuti ,
Leli Hayati Harahap, for being such good brothers sister and always
prayed and supported her.
Her partner, Alex Ramadhani, someone special in her life, for kindness, because he always accompany somewhere and whenever, give support,
give suggestion in face the is and give his pure love on her.
The head master of SMP Swasta Pembangunan Galang Medan. Masliana Saragih S.Pd. For giving her permission to do the research in
this school, English teacher and the students of class ninth in the first
semester of MTs Lab IKIP Medan.
Her beloved friends of English education (Nurhayati Ayanda, S.Pd. Purnama Sari, Maya Puspita, Umami Handayani) and all students of
Ext C 09, and also for class B, A for their support, information,
encouragement, and assistance.
It is realized that this thesis is far from perfect. Therefore, comments,
critics, suggestions, and advises are expected from the readers.
Medan, March 2014
The Writer,
Siti Fatimah Harahap
ABSTRACT
Fatimah, Siti Harahap Registration Number: 209321067. Improving Students’ writing Achievement in Narrative Text by Using Factual and Historical. A Thesis Department, Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language as means of communication that make people can express their
purpose, feeling, and their opinion. It can say that language is an aid that makes
people can interact and communicate well with one other.
English is an International language that very important to learn. In
Indonesia, English is taught as foreign language (EFL), it has been included in the
Curriculum of School in Indonesia.
Based on the Curriculum of Educational Unit Level (KTSP) which was
legitimated in 2006, learning English in high school is emphasized on the four
basic skills of language, namely; listening, speaking, writing, and reading. By
these four skill students’ are expected to be competent and able to have the good
prestige in their school, college, or in their work place.
Based on my observation in writing the students were difficulty to write
English and when the writer interview the students, they said that they needed
good method in learning process like method. So, the observer choose Factual
and Historical Method as the Method in learning writing narrative text.
Writing is needed in school environment not only as tool for transferring
the knowledge from teacher to the students and student with students but also as
one of English skills that should be learned by students, besides others skill like
As one skill of English, writing can help students to learn and develop
their English by expressingtheir knowledge, experience and so on. It can be
expressed in form of essay a paragraph, a letter, a short story and etc.
Writing is a process of thinking. Brown (2001:335)states written products
are often the result of thinking, drafting, and revising procedures that require
specialized skills, skill that not every speaker develops naturally. The master of
vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation, appropriate content, words selection
appropriate to the audience, topic and occasion are required in writing. However,
the ability of thinking and the ability to organize are crucial in order to make you
express you idea in well-organized sentence, which have a good coherence and
cohesion.
Since English in Indonesia is taught as foreign language, the students still
found it as a difficult one to study, especially in teaching writing. There are many
reasons that cause this phenomenon. on of them is the real English teaching and
learning process. Most of the teacher still use the conventional method or classical
system, teacher still apply the “teacher centered learning” system, it means the
process of teaching focused on the teacher. This way makes students passive in
class. Therefore, the students never come to the aim or to the objective of teaching
writing as a foreign language.
In order to achieve the goal of teaching writing, the research attempt to
apply the most important teaching method, that is, factual and historical method.
Factual and Historical method is one of the great methods that can be applied to
with student’s real word situation, that is, with the context of their personal,
social, and cultural circumstance.
The writer limits is only to improve student’s achievement on writing
narrative text because narrative text deals problem events. It is a story that has
character, setting, and action. So, the student teach to write a story that relates
with their real world situation in which in their story detail clarify the characters,
setting and action. It expects that students become easy to get ideas, motivated,
more confidence in writing, especially on narrative text, so that the goals of
teaching writing can achieve by using Factual and Historical method.
In this research, the writer will confuse on student’s success achieving in
writing narrative text by using factual and historical method. Narrative is one of
the genres of writing which tell readers a story or event. This research will
conduct to investigate how factual andhistorical method improves the student’s
achievement in writing narrative text. By using Factual and Historical method, it
assumes that the student’s teaching and learning process will improve better.
B. The Problem of the Study
Related to the background, the problem in this research is formulated as
the following:
“Is there any significant improvement on student’s achievement in writing
C. The Scope of the Study
The scope of this research is limited on the use narrative writing by
applying Factual and Historical method.
D. The Objective of the Study
The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using
Factual and Historical method and Learning method on students’ achievement on
writing text.
E. The Significant of the Study
The findings of this research are expected to be useful for :
1) English teachers to apply Factual and Historical method in their writing
class to improve the students’ writing achievement.
2) English learners to enlarge their knowledge to write in English and to
improve their writing achievement by using Factual and Historical method.
3) The readers who wan to improve their knowledge about teaching and
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data, the writer found that the qualitative data showed
that the students’ writing score increase during cycles. Moreover, the qualitative
data showed that the students are interested and more comfortable in learning
narrative writing by using Factual and Historical. It can be concluded that Factual
and Historical can improve students’ achievement in narrative text.
B. Suggestion
Some suggestion are pointed out as follows:
1. It is that English Teacher used Factual and Historical, so that they can
improve their students’ achievement in narrative text.
2. To the students, it is suggested to use relevant topic to conduct the farther
research by using Factual and Historical.
3. For all reader, may this research will bring ability through Factual and
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