U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 2, No 9 (2013): U-JET

INCREASING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN SUMMARIZING RECOUNT TEXT OF WRITING THROUGH TPS TECHNIQUE

Gestiana Purwaningtias (UNILA)
Editha Gloria Simanjuntak (Unknown)
Rosita Simbolon (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jul 2013

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan hasil dalam kemampuan siswa merangkum teks melalui TPS dan untuk mengetahui bagaimana kegiatan siswa dalam proses belajar melalui TPS. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas dua SMPN 1 Seputih Agung, Lampung Tengah terdiri dari tujuh kelas. Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah kelas VIIIC. Data diperoleh dari pretest, postest, dan observasi. Berdasarkan perhitungan, hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata siswa pada posttest (72.11) lebih tinggi dari pretest (53.33) dengan perbedaan 18.78 poin. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa hipotesis diterima, karena t-value (25.491) t-table (1.684). TPS meningkatkan tidak hanya kemampuan siswa dalam merangkum teks, tetapi juga meningkatkan kegiatan siswa selama proses belajar. Oleh karena itu, TPS dianjurkan untuk digunakan oleh guru untuk meningkatkan prestasi menulis siswa.The objectives of this research were to investigate whether there is an increase in students’ writing ability in summarizing text after being taught through TPS and to find out the students’ activity in learning process using TPS. The population of this research was the second year students of SMPN 1 Seputih Agung, Lampung Tengah consisting of seven classes. The sample of this research was VIIIC. The data were obtained from pretest, posttest, and observation. Based on the calculation, the result showed that the students’ mean score of posttest (72.11) was higher than pretest (53.33) with the gained score was 18.78. It showed that hypothesis was accepted, because t-value (25.491) t-table (1.684). TPS increase not only students’ ability in summarizing text, but also improve students’ activity in learning process. Thus, it is concluded that TPS can be applied and recommended as a reference to teach English in writing class.Keywords: increase, recount text, summarizing text, think pair share

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...