This research is to know the students' ability either by using the spelling quiz. Sometimes the researcher wanted to develop the students' writing ability, especially in the game of bee games. Can the use of English spelling bee games increase the students' writing ability under the eighth grade at SMP N 6 Metro the Academic Year of.
It can be earlier reference for the written to know how to increase the students' writing ability by using English spelling bee games among the eighth grade at SMP N 6 Metro in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. So, it shows that there is influence of spelling bee game on the students' performance in English Vocabulary. 3. The Influence of Spelling Bee Game on the Students' Achievement in English Vocabulary by The Seventh Grade Students of SMP N 1 Suranenggala.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of Study
- Problem Identification
- Limitation of the Problem
- Problem Formulation
- The Objective and Benifit of the Study
- Prior Research
According to Penny Ur, "the purpose of writing is basically the expression of ideas, the transmission of messages to the reader.9 So the ideas themselves should undoubtedly be seen as the most important aspect of writing. Then the researcher explained to the students who can take notes made a descriptive text through spelling games The researcher continued the material from the last meeting, after which the researcher gave them the post-test to the students.
So, based on the result of post-test cycle II, it could be seen that the target based on Minimum Standard Criteria (MSC) has increased students' writing ability by using spelling games. All students participated in class during the presentation of the material using spelling games as a medium. The students are suggested to increase their writing ability by using spelling games as a technique.
THEORETICAL REVIEW
The Concept of Writing Ability
- The Concept of Writing Ability
- The Concept of Spelling Bee Game
Students' vocabulary learning using spelling game of second year students at SMPN 3 Sungguminasa Gowa. So the spelling game is a language skill like vocabulary, structure, pronunciation and spelling should be taught cohesively with the language skill. And the purpose of the spelling bee game is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabulary, learn the concept, develop the correct use of English and increase students.
Using spelling games as a technique in teaching spelling will improve writing ability for students to learn a new word. There are several ways to run a Spelling Bee in the classroom, and the Spelling Bee is easy to set up. In this research, the details of the spelling game in the classroom were explained in the research process, especially in the action.
Action Hypothesis
A posttest administered after the treatment to determine whether the method used can increase students' writing ability. Student Descriptive Writing Pretest Score No Student Name Target Score >70. Before starting the material, the researcher asked the students if they understood the descriptive text.
From the test result, it can be seen that the teaching learning process was successful because the students' scores increased in cycle 2. During the research process, the researcher observed that the students were interested in teaching and learning to write. This means that the spelling bee game had a positive effect in relation to the teaching and learning process, especially by improving the students' learning activities in the classroom.
Data Collection Technique
Research Instrument
The indicator of students' writing ability is that students can increase their writing based on vocabulary, pronunciation, structure and grammar. In post-test cycle 1, only 13 students got a good score, but the result of the student test was better than the students' test before giving treatment. There were some observations that had been made such as: observation of students' activities, teacher's notes and observation of the result of the evaluation.
So the MSC was met if 80% of the students in the class got at least 70 points. From the increase in pre-test to post-test cycle I, it could be known that the spelling example as a medium for teaching and learning could increase students' writing ability of descriptive tests. So it was fulfilling the SMC that 80% of the students in the class got at least 70 scores.
Based on the table, it can be concluded that there was an increase in the students' learning activities during the study through the spelling game in improving the students' writing ability in the descriptive test. The use of spelling game as a medium, especially in the English subject, was very effective in improving students' writing ability in the eighth grader of SMPN 6 Metro Lampung.
Data Analysis Method
Indicators Success
This research would have been successful if 70% of the students scored at least 70% and 70% of the students were active in the learning process.
RESEARCH RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Result of the Research
- The Description of SMPN 6 Metro
- School Identity
- The Vision and Mission
- The Teacher and Staffs
- The condition of Students
- The Building
- The Location Sketch
The vision of SMPN 6 Metro is ASRI (Safe, Healthy, Shady, Beautiful), caring and performance based on science and technology and IMTAQ which is environmentally sound.
Research Finding Description
- Cycle
- Cycle
The students must provide the correct past form and it must be spelled whisper correctly by the way. And then rightly or wrongly the students went to the end of his/her line. After students wrote the example and heard the material, the researcher and the students reviewed and discussed the pretest from the previous meeting.
Nevertheless, the improvement of the score from the mean in the pretest was 37.45 and the mean of the score in the posttest cycle 2 was 68.32, but the MSC did not meet that at least the average of the students' scores were. We started the meeting with a greeting, prayer, asking about the condition of the students, checking the attendance list and motivating the students. Before the next activity, the researcher asked the students to recall the lesson yesterday.
The researcher gave the students 20 vocabularies and the students memorized 20 vocabularies and divided the students into four groups. After memorizing 20 vocabulary words, the students played the spelling game in each group, standing in front of the whiteboard. And then, whether it was right or wrong, the students went to the end of his/her line.
Then the researcher read these sentences and the students imitate each sentence what the researcher says and correct the students'. There were some observations that were made such as: observations about the students' activities and observation about the teachers' activities. Based on the result of observational learning process on cycle II, it can be concluded that most of the students paid attention to the teacher and they were able to accept the material more clearly.
Most of the students enjoyed when they studied through spelling games and it also made the students feel good.
Discussion
- The result of the Research
- The Result of Students’ Observation Sheet
However, due to the result of the students' scores could not reach the goal: we decided to give a test to the students used in the same way in cycle I, but with a different lesson plan. This means that students were able to meet the target, with 80% of students achieving a score of 70 or more. Based on the result of the observation learning process on cycle II, it can be seen that the teaching learning process was successful because the students who can realize more than 70 were 27 students or 80% of all the students.
Although in cycle I the writing skills of the students scored satisfactory, in cycle II most of the students were able to achieve the goal of success in this research. It can be seen from the results test of the students that cycle II is higher than cycle I, it means that by using spelling bee game the students can increase their writing skills while learning descriptive text. It is suggested to the teacher that the English teacher use spelling bee game as a technique, because this technique is effective to increase the writing skills of the students in learning.
It is suggested that the English teacher use the spelling bee game as a technique because it can automatically improve the students' motivation and make them put in their best efforts to accept the material given by the teacher. Students must be confident and always remember the vocabulary of writing skills to enhance the teaching of writing in the classroom. Some of the students are loud to fight with their friends and walk to and fro, another just keep quiet.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
It is higher than the 80% determined by the researcher in this study.
Suggestion
The school is recommended to do further research on increasing writing skills using the spelling game technique. The paper hopes that this study can make a contribution to the school, such as a reference for further studies in the teaching of writing skills, and recommends further studies in the application of the teacher-made spelling game in the teaching of writing ability. Jeani Shinta Rahayu, Spelling Bee Game in Teaching Bee Text (An Experimental Study in SMAN 5 Cimahi), (Jakarta: Department of English Education Faculty of Languages and Arts Education Indonesia University of Education, 2009), Thesis Published.
Average to good: some knowledge of the subject, mostly relevant to the subject but lack of detail Poor to fair: limited knowledge of the subject, insufficient development of the subject. Very Good to Excellent: Advanced range, effective word or idiom choice and use, mastery of word form, appropriate register. Average to Good: Sufficient range, occasional errors in words/idioms, form, choice, use, but meaning not obscured. Poor or fair: limited range, frequent errors in words/idioms, form, choice, usage, meaning confused or unclear.
Very good to excellent: effective complex construction, few concordance errors, number of tenses, word order/function, article, pronoun and preposition. Average to good: effective but simple construction, minor problem in complex construction, some errors of agreement, tense, word order/function, articles, pronouns, prepositions, but meaning rarely obscured Poor to fair: major problem in.
