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Improving Students' Ability in Writing Recount Text by Using Topical Approach at Second Grade of Junior High School Agnes Wiana Situmorang; Himpun Panggabean
Journal of Classroom Action Research Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): February, 2022
Publisher : English Lecturers and Teachers Association (ELTA)

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This study is about improving writing recount text by using topical approach. This objective of this research is to find out whether the use of topical approach improves the students’ skill in writing recount text or not. The subject of this study was one class of the grade. Ten students of SMPN 28 Medan Johor which consisted of 30 students. The action research was conducted of july 2018. The quantitative data were taken from writing test as the instrument to find out students score. The qualitative data were taken from observation sheet, questionnaire, interview and diary notes and obseervation sheet describe the improvement of students’ skill in writing recount text was mostly improved in every test. The observation sheet and diary notes showed that the students were interested in the teaching learning process. These finding show thatthere was an improvement on the students’skill in writing recount text by using topical approach that was supported by the result, the mean score post test cycle I (75, 06) was better than mean score pre test ( 57, 43) and the mean score of post test cycle II ( 82, 03) was better than the mean score of post test cycle I. There were also positive changes in students’ behavior in learning English. During the action, the students paidgood participation to the lesson. The students were more active in joining the processof teaching and learning. Therefore, it canbe concluded that topical approach can improve the students’ skill in writing recount text. Keyword : recount text, topical approac.
The Use of Audio Lingual Method to Improve the students’ Speaking Ability at SMA Anugerah Harapan Bangsa Medan Saragih, Marice; Panggabean, Himpun
Journal of Classroom Action Research Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): February, 2025
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The aims of this research was to find out the improvement on students’ speaking ability after being taught by using Audio-Lingual method. This research applied quantitative research method with 60 students of SMA Anugerah Harapan Negeri Medan, 30 students as sample in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group. The data were collected trough speaking test. The students were asked to listened the short paragraph then asked the student repeated, imitated and memorized the text then the students were asked to record what the students listened. The data were collected in form of recording. The result showed that mean of the students ability using Audio-Lingual Method and without the treat mean were different. The data obtained from the score were the result of the experimental and control class. From the total score pre test of the experimental class (1.574) and the total score pre test of the control class (1.424) can be concluded that the achievement of both group was the same. After getting the treatment (Audio-Lingual Method), the total score post-test of the experimental (2.305) was higher than the total score post-test of the control class (1.654) which did not get the treatment. It can be said that the speaking ability of the students of Eleven grade SMA Harapan Negeri have increased Key Words : Audio-Lingual, Method, Speaking Ability