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THE USE OF CARTOON VIDEO AS A MEDIA TO TEACH DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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THE USE OF CARTOON VIDEO AS A MEDIA TO TEACH DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Anggi Tri Prasetya Ningtyas 102084224 English Education, Faculty and Language and Art, State University of Surabaya Email: Anggitriningtyas@gmail.com Dra. Theresia Kumalarini, M.Pd. English Education, Faculty and Language and Art, State University of Surabaya email: kumala_rini52@yahoo.co.id Abstrak Manusia menghasilkan bahasa untuk berkomunikasi dengan orang lain . Dalam proses belajar mengajar , para siswa menghadapi banyak masalah dalam belajar bahasa Inggris , terutama dalam mempelajari teks deskriptif . Media video kartun ini adalah alternatif untuk mengajar menulis teks deskriptif akan Mudah jika diterapkan di kelas . Tempat penelitian ini di SMP AL - ISLAM Krian . Penelitian ini menjawab dua pertanyaan penelitian yang dinyatakan sebagai berikut ( 1 ) Bagaimana pelaksanaan video kartun dalam mengajar menulis teks deskriptif untuk siswa kelas VIII SMP AL - ISLAM Krian ? ( 2 ) Bagaimana respon siswa terhadap pelaksanaan video kartun dalam mengajar menulis teks deskriptif ? Dalam penelitian ini , penulis menggunakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif . Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa VIII E. Ada tiga jenis instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah lembar observasi , angket, dan catatan kaki. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam tiga pertemuan . Dalam setiap pertemuan , guru memberikan tugas di topik yang berbeda , topiknya adalah " Binka and Brave " , "Moving Day " dan " Girl Trouble ". Hasil penelitian ini cukup memuaskan. Selain itu , para siswa tidak mengalami kesulitan mengidentifikasi Generic Structure dan language future teks deskriptif , meskipun guru harus menjelaskan kata kunci dan kosa kata asing dalam setiap pertemuan. Pelaksanaan pembelajaran menggunakan video kartun yang disampaikan berhasil . Dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan kartun video untuk mengajarkan teks deskriptif bisa merangsang ide siswa untuk menulis teks yang baik . Kata Kunci: Video kartun, kemampuan Menulis, Teks Deskriptif Abstract People produce language to communicate with others. In the teaching and learning process, the students face many problems in learning English, especially in learning a descriptive text. This alternative technique to teach descriptive writing text would be easier if cartoon video implemented in the classroom. The setting of this study is at SMP AL-ISLAM KRIAN. This study answered two research questions which were stated as follows: (1) How was the implementation of cartoon video in teaching writing descriptive to the eight grade students of SMP AL-ISLAM Krian? (2) How were the students’ responses towards the implementation of cartoon video in teaching writing descriptive?In this study, the writer used descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the study was 8-F students. There were three kinds of instruments used in this study. The researcher was conducted in three meeting. In every meeting, the teacher gave an assignment in different topics, the topics of which were “Binka and Brave”, “Moving Day” and “Girl Trouble”. The result of the study was satisfactory. Moreover, the students had no difficulty identifying the generic structure and language features of a descriptive text, although the teacher had to explain the keywords and unfamiliar vocabulary in every meeting. The implementation of cartoon video which was generally spoken was successful. It could be concluded that the use of cartoon video to teach a descriptive text could stimulate the students’ idea to write a good text. Keywords: Cartoon Video, Writing Skill, Descriptive Text INTRODUCTION People need interactions each other. Moreover, language is important in communications, without having language, people are isolated and helpless. Dealing with the curriculum, the seventh grade of junior high school students have to master descriptive text. Descriptive text is one of the functional texts. Unfortunately, the students have some problems in writing descriptive text. The students find it difficult to write a correct structure of descriptive text. On the other hands, the researcher found some weaknesses of the teacher in teaching descriptive text to the students. In order to make the students being motivate and enjoy to learn, the teacher should use interesting teaching methods, as Jeremy Harmer (2007: 20) states that teacher’s method in teaching can be intrinsic motivation that motivates the students to learn. Media can be used by both teachers and students. The use of media also allows the students to be involved in the teaching and learning process. Purwati (2002: 25) states: One of the media used in teaching writing is video. Most of audiovisual media make students easily understand and enjoy the lesson in writing class. By using video as media for the teaching of descriptive text, students will be more interested and more active in learning. Because of the reasons above, the researcher wants to conduct an observation study in SMP AL-ISLAM Krian by using cartoon video as a media in teaching descriptive text. Writing is functional communication; making learners possible to create imagined worlds of their own design, it means that, through writing, learners can express thought, feeling, ideas, experiences, etc to convey a specific purpose. The purpose of writing is to give some information. Meyers (2005:2) said that writing is an action. This means that when the students first write something down, they have already been thinking about what they are going to say. Then after the students have finished writing, they read over what they have written and make changes and corrections. Writing is a productive skill, which contains a symbol (orthographic) and involves a complex process. In making a good writing, the students must use correct grammatical rules, choose appropriate vocabulary, and consider the coherent and cohesion. By writing, we can share our idea, feeling, or anything that exist in our mind. Writing prosecutes students to focus on generating idea, organizing coherently, revising it into good composition, using discourse markers and rhetorical conventions cohesively, and editing text for appropriate grammar. Descriptive text is one of the types of writing where the writer describes something: perhaps a place, an object and person. The writer draw us the picture with recreated as recapture sounds, smells, or feeling as near the observation itself as words on a page can create (Depdiknas, 2004:4). The purpose of descriptive text is to tell to the reader about the situation that has been seen clearly, it can make the reader feels that he or she have seen the object by him or herself. It tells and describes a particular person, place or thing. In teaching and learning process, there are several important components that must be fulfilled. Besides, there is another component that should be included. It is something that could help the teacher in the teaching and learning process. It can be called as a media. Media comes from the Latin word “Medium” which means something to deliver the message from sender to the receiver. According to Sadiman et al (2002), media is kind of tools used to deliver information from sender to receivers which can attract their mind, feeling, attention and interest of the students, so that the teaching and learning process happened. It means that media can develop the relation between teacher and students in the teaching and learning process effectively. Media can be used to overcome the students’ boredom. Student will enjoy the teaching and learning process and understand about the material given when they are interested in what they are doing. A video is a technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing motion pictures. That is one of technologies which is popular in people’s daily life. It is used almost in every part of people’s life, such as for entertainment, information, education, etc. Video becomes popular nowadays because educational world also use it as one of the media in the teaching and learning process. There are some reasons why video can be used in this process. First, video can give authentic model of the language. It means that the students who are watching video can directly observe how intonation can match facial expression (Harmer, 2002:282). Video is considered as good thing to see the English culture. It shows how people live thing, and behaves in the culture. Derewianka states that a descriptive text can be learned through video (1990:32). It is said that the students will get enthusiastic and motivated to learn something, if the material learned are suitable with their development. In choosing the material, teacher should be selective, it must be in line with the students need, student interest in accordance with the students’ development video stimulates students, and students will pay more attention in learning language. Harmer (2001:261) said that the principal roles in writing task should be motivate students on creating the right condition for generating ideas, so they will write easily. In order to exploit the video fully in the classroom, the teacher should integrate pre-viewing, viewing, and post viewing activities into the lesson. METHODOLOGY Research Subjects Research was a descriptive qualitative research designed to describe the teaching learning process which was taken place in natural setting of classroom. Qualitative research is a research taken in natural setting of the classroom and emphasized on the result of the research in the form of narrative explanations to give understanding and meaning (Mcmillan, 1992: 9). The researcher was the observer in this research. The data of the research were collected through observation checklists, questionnaires and field notes. In this research, the researcher took notes based on everything she saw and heard in the class during the teaching learning process. At the end of teaching learning process, the teacher and observer did the reflection based on the observation checklists. After reflecting the teaching learning process, the next step was exchanged the information of the situation happened in class. In this case, the teacher and observer discussed the information of teaching learning process based on observation checklists and field notes. The subject of the study was the students of the eight grade of Junior High School. The researcher took class 8F of SMP AL-ISLAM KRIAN (YAPALIS). It was consisted of 43 students, included 22 boys and 21 girls. Instrument of the Study In this study, the main instrument to collect the data was the writer herself. It was in line with Marriam (1998: 7) who stated that in qualitative research the researcher was the primary instrument for data collection and analysis. In this research, the researcher observed, paid attention, took notes on the activities happened in class to set the data needed. In order to collect the data, the researcher used several instruments. They were as follows: observation checklists, field note and questionnaire. Data Collection Data collection technique is a way to get the research data. In this research, the data collection techniques consisted of observation checklists, questionnaires, and field notes. The research was conducted in three meetings. This data were the result of observation checklists. The data collected from observation checklists and field notes were used to answer research question number 1 which was questioned about the implementation of using cartoon video in teaching writing of descriptive text to the eight grade students of SMP AL-ISLAM Krian. Furthermore, in order to answer research question number 2 which was questioned about the students’ responses toward the implementation of using cartoon video in teaching writing of descriptive text, the researcher used questionnaires. Data Analysis Technique The data of this study was analyzed by descriptive qualitative research design. The data was obtained during and after the data collection phase. The researcher presented the result of the observations and students’ opinions in descriptive manner. She presented the data in the form of descriptions. She described the result of the observations to her questions in the checklists. Furthermore, the researcher described the result of the observation which was obtained from the class condition, the teacher’s activities in leading this technique, and also the students’ activities in the classroom. The researcher organized all the data based on the observations, synthesized the data, and decided what to report. She summarized the data critically and explained the data logically. RESULT The Results of the First Observation The researcher conducted the first observation on February 6th 2014. At that time, the class began at 11.00 am and ended at 12.30 pm. There were three activities in each meeting namely Pre-viewing Activities, Viewing, and Post-viewing Activities. 1. Pre-viewing Activity The teacher checked the attendance lists; one student was absent that day, there were 42 students who attended the class. She greeted the students. The students raised their hands as their name being called. Then the teacher asked about the student’s feeling that day. The students enjoyed the little chat with the teacher before starting the lesson. 2. Viewing-activities The teacher gave an example of a descriptive text. She asked the students to read it. The teacher also asked the students whether it was a good example of descriptive text before the teacher used a video as media to teach descriptive text. 3. Post-activities The teacher reminded the students that there was a time limit for writing the descriptive text. When the time was up the teacher asked the students to submit their works. After that, the teacher and the students reviewed the lesson that day. The Results of the Second Observation 1. Pre-activities The second observation was held on February 8th 2014. The class started at 07.00 am and ended at 08.30 am. The activities in the second observation were almost the same as the first observation. The writing class was held in the classroom. 2. Viewing-activity In this step, the teacher introduced a new topic that she had already prepared. The topic was “Moving Day” cartoon video by Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (see appendix 6). In this video, there were mentioned some things: kinds of T-shirt, table, piano, cupboard, etc. In this activity, the teacher explained what the students should do which was similar with the first meeting. She asked the students to pay attention to the video carefully. 3. Post-activities The teacher asked the students to submit their work. In this step, the teacher made sure that all of the students had done their writing. The teacher asked the students about their feeling after they wrote descriptive text. The students said that they wrote better than the previous meeting. At the end of the day, the teacher greeted and ended the lesson. The Results of the Third Observation 1. Pre – activities It was started by greeting and asking the students about the previous lessons. It aimed to know whether the students were still remembered about the material in the previous lessons 2. Viewing – activity In this part, the teacher explained the activities while watching cartoon video. There were some opinions from the students about the cartoon video. The class was active enough and there were interaction between students and teacher. 3. Post-activities The teacher limited the time when the students wrote a descriptive text based on cartoon video and when the time was up the teacher asked the students to submit their work DISCUSSION. The Implementation of Using Cartoon Video in Teaching Writing of Descriptive Text The researcher used questionnaire to collect the data for the second research question. The researcher spread out questionnaire to find out the students’ opinion on the use of cartoon video in writing text. The data then were used as the basis on knowing the success of the use of cartoon video in writing descriptive text. When the questionnaire was spread out, forty students joined the class, three students were absent. Here are the results of the students’ responses toward questionnaire. Question number one until four were asking about the material and lesson in descriptive text. Most of the students agreed that the teacher explained the material clearly. It was proved by the result, half of the students agreed that the material presented by the teacher in front of the class was easy to understand. Therefore, the students did not find any difficulties in understanding descriptive text. And then some of students they answered about very agreed that descriptive text was easy. Question number five until ten were asking about the use of cartoon video to teach descriptive text. Most of the students’ greed that they enjoyed the material in descriptive text by using cartoon video. And then half of students agreed that the cartoon video in teaching process was clearly helpful. The next result was about the responses in the process of the use cartoon video in teaching descriptive text. More than a half agree that the use of cartoon video can generate their ideas in writing descriptive. Therefore, the students did not have difficulties to understand about the material when the teacher using cartoon video, about half of the students chosen that answer. The last questionnaire was focusing on the students’ interest in use of cartoon video more than students agreed that the use of cartoon video to teach descriptive text was successful to create enjoyable atmosphere in the classroom. Not only the teacher’s role which influenced student’s writing, but also the material and media used in the learning and teaching descriptive writing text. Dealing with the implementation of cartoon video, most students liked that very much. The class atmosphere showed that the students were enthusiastic when they were watching cartoon video. It was effective to make the students felt relaxed and enjoyed in the learning and teaching writing. It was in line with Arcario and Stempleski (1994: 110) who stated that the video used in teaching and learning activity should be suitable with students’ interest. They enjoyed the video very much because it was very funny and entertaining. In short, the use of cartoon video was very helpful to attract the students’ interest, raised their motivation, and helped them generating ideas. Using video in good condition was very important to help the students understand of the video itself. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusions In this study, it is found that the implementation of using cartoon video in teaching writing of descriptive text is effective. It helps the students write descriptive text easily. There are three meetings in the teaching writing of descriptive text using cartoon video. All videos used in every meeting have different topics to present. The teacher always explains the students about the relevant keywords related to the videos. These activities help the students to write descriptive texts. Moreover, the students really enjoy writing descriptive text using cartoon video as media. Teacher’s explanations also help the students in the learning process. Although the students have some difficulties in mastering grammars, vocabularies, and organization, but they have solutions to overcome these difficulties. Suggestions Based on the result of the research, there are still many aspects that should be revised. The teacher and other researchers can make the revision in teaching learning process of writing descriptive text to the students. Some suggestions are presented as follows: For the Teacher Concerning the students’ difficulties in getting the ideas of writing, the researcher suggests that: The topic should be interesting and familiar to the students, neither too easy nor too difficult in order to motivate the students in writing. 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USING FOLKTALE VIDEO AS A MEDIA TO TEACH WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADERS
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USING FOLKTALE VIDEO AS A MEDIA TO TEACH WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADERS Maya Septian Ningrum 102084222 English Education, Faculty of Languages and Art, State Universityof Surabaya email: mayasept@yahoo.com Dra. Theresia Kumalarini, M.Pd. English Education, Faculty of Languages and Art, State Universityof Surabaya email: kumala_rini52@yahoo.co.id Abstrak Mengingat menulismemerlukan beberapa prosedur dan bahwa tulisan yang baik mensyaratkan kriteria, dengan demikian, menulis adalah kegiatan yang sulit untuk dilakukan bagi sebagian siswa. Harmer ( 2012) menyatakan bahwa banyak siswa tidak begitumenikmati menulis, jadi tugas guru adalah untuk membuat mereka nyaman dan antusias dengan hal itu. Berkenaandenganitu, penggunaan video sebagai media audiovisual selalu menjadi bagian yang pentingdalammengatasi masalah tersebut. Menanggapiitu, penelitianinibertujuanuntukmenginvestigasipenggunaan video ceritarakyatdalamkegiatanmenulisteksnarasidanresponparasiswasetelahdiajardenganmenggunakan video yang diberikan. Observation checklist, catatanlapangan, dankuesionerdigunakanuntukmengumpulkan data yang diperlukandalampenelitiandeskriptifkualitatifini.Hasilpenelitianmenunjukkanbahwapenggunaan video ceritarakyatmengintegrasikankegiatanpre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing. Hasilpenelitianjugamengungkapkanbahwaparasiswamemberirespon yang positifterhadappenggunaan video ceritarakyattersebut. Sekalipundemikian, Sekalipundemikian, menggunakan video dalam kelas harus disiapkan dengan baik oleh para guru. Mereka dapat menggunakan berbagai kegiatan tindak lanjut untuk memaksimalkan penggunaan video itu sendiri. Dengan demikian, hasil belajar yang optimal dapat dicapai oleh siswa. Kata Kunci: menulis, video, ceritarakyat, teksnarasi. Abstract Considering that writing employs some procedures and that of a good writing needs criterion, thus, writing is a hard activity to do for some students. Harmer (2012) claims many students do not enjoy writing very much and so the teacher’s task is to make them comfortable and enthusiastic about it. Following this, the use of video as an audiovisual aid has always been an integral part overcome the problem mentioned. Coping with the above problem, this study aimed to find out the use of folktale video in writing narrative activity and the students’ responses after being taught by the video given. Observation checklist, field notes and questionnaire were employed in three observations to confirm the data needed under the descriptive qualitative research.The results pointed out that the use of folktale video to teach writing narrative text integrated pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities. The results also described that the students gave positive response toward the use of folktale video. However, using video in class should be prepared well by the teachers. They may use various follow-up activities to maximize the use of the video itself. Thus, the optimal learning outcome can be achieved by the students. Keywords:writing, video, folktale, narrative text INTRODUCTION As a lingua franca since the past century, English plays an important role as a communication tool in the area science and technology information. It is in line with Crystal (2003) who states English a medium of a great deal of the world’s knowledge, especially in such areas of science and technology. In addition, the rapid development of English as an informational language in educational sector is significantly increasing. Thus, it makes the mastery of English become essential for students. Following this, English Standard Competence 2006 states that English is a means of communication in oral and written form, especially in getting information, expressing idea, improving technology, science, and culture (Depdiknas, 2006). Knowing the important role to study English in today’s life, students need to be sufficiently equipped with English communication skills, both oral and written. In order to study English either as the second or foreign language, students make an effort to develop and integrate the four basic skills which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing as one of those four language skill is very important. As stated by Byrne (1979), writing is one of the language skills which are should be mastered by the students as the way to communicate. Communicating in writing involves procedural activities starting from planning, drafting, revising, and rewriting in order to discover and produce ideas and views. Thus, writing is seen as a medium for self-expression for communication and to discovery meaning to be used to give signal or information to others (Petty and Jensen, 1980). Indonesia has English Standard Competence to guide teachers to teach writing. The aim of teaching writing at junior high level is to express the meaning of interpersonal, ideational, textual become written form which has communicative purpose, structured text, and also the characteristic of the language itself (Depdiknas, 2006). Writing in junior high level takes part in genres of narrative, descriptive, procedure, recount, and report. Narrative is given to junior high level in order to make the students able to express a short monologue which concern to one’s personal experience or fantasy story. According to Finoza (2001), narration as a kind of writing which create story and combine human behavior in the events in chronological order which happens in the past. On the other hand, Keraf (1996) defines narrative as a composition which has two basic components, events and a link of time. Narrative text is simply telling story. It can be such stories like legend, myth, folktale, and fable. Its purpose is for amusing the reader or listener (Anderson and Anderson, 1997). Considering that writing employs some procedures, producing a coherent, fluent, extended piece of writing is probably the most difficult activity to do. In addition, writing clear sentence requires learning the rules of English grammar and mechanics as well as commas and other marks of punctuation. Thus, writing seems as a complex, cognitive process that requires sustained intellectual effort over a considerable period of time (White and Arndt, 1991). As consequence, many students do not enjoy writing very much (Harmer, 2012). He further confirms that it is the teacher’s task to make them comfortable and enthusiastic about it. So, when students are involved in writing activity, a teacher in language learning is asked to create the right condition to generate the students’ ideas and make much effort to create a nice learning atmosphere in order to achieve the optimal result. One well-known way to minimize the students’ difficulties in writing activity can be achieved by bringing video into the class. Harmer (2001) asserts that students would see language-in-use when video is given in a task. Video can be a facilitator for the students to see the language in operation. They have a chance to see language in use as well as they hear it. Stempleski and Tomalin (1990) also state that students feel their interest quicken when language is experienced in a lively way through television or video.Video which presents combination of picture and sound can present language more comprehensively than any other teaching medium. Further, Harmer (2001) points out that video can enhance simulation and build students’ creativity and ideas. It provides feedback when students watch and evaluate what they have in mind to be applied in their real life. In this study, the researcher uses folktale video. Folktale is a variety of narrative story which is spoken beyond generation. Watching video in a writing task can be followed up with note-taking about the plot that students saw on the video. They can also review setting and characters that are involved in. Students can review them based on the folktale video given. This activity will be encouraging for students where there are worksheets and related material for them to work with on their writing task (Harmer, 2001), Considering the positive contribution of video to the teaching writing, therefore, the researcher is highly motivated in conducting a study entitled “Using Folktale Video as a Media to Teach Writing Narrative Text to the Eighth Graders”. METHOD Research Design Since the aims of this study were to investigate the use of folktale video for teaching writing narrative text to the eighth graders and their responses after the video is being implemented, this study used descriptive qualitative research. According to Ary et. al. (2010), qualitative research is designed to obtain information concerning on how a researcher makes sense of interpreting human experiences at the time of the study through verbal narratives and observations rather than through numbers. Subjects The subjects of this study were the English teacher and the eighth graders of VIII-A SMP Muhammadiyah 17 Plus Surabaya. The subjects were selected since they had applied folktale video as a media to teach writing narrative text in the teaching and learning process. Instruments Research instruments were aimed to help the researcher get the data. In this study, the researcher used three instruments, i.e. observation checklist, field notes, and questionnaire. The observation checklist and field notes noted all activities that did by both teacher and students during the teaching and learning process, while the questionnaire was looking for information about the students’ responses toward the use of folktale video in the teaching writing narrative text. This questionnaire consisted of 8 questions with options a, b, c, and d. a and b indicated positive response, while c and d indicated negative response. Data Collection The steps of data collections are explained as follows: The researcher collected the data through observations in the classroom when the teaching writing of a narrative text to the eighth graders was being done using folktale video. The researcher used observation checklist and field notes to observe the activities during three-meeting observations. The researcher used artifact analysis in the form of questionnaire to provide information related to the students’ responses toward the use of folktale video in the teaching writing of a narrative text. This questionnaire was given at the end of the teaching and learning process on the last observation. Data Analysis There were three steps for the data analysis of this study: Identifying and describing the data. The researcher identified the data accurately based on the observation checklist, field notes, and questionnaire. Then, the data were described qualitatively. Analyzing the results. The data that have been identified were presented. Observation checklist, field notes, and the results of the students’ questionnaire were thoroughly analyzed to see the results. Interpreting conclusion. After finishing those two steps, the interpretation of all the data was drawn into a conclusion. RESULTS The Results of the Observations In each meeting of the observations, the teacher conducted activities, i.e. opening, main activity, and closing. On the opening activity, she began to start the lesson by greeting the students, introducing the objectives of the lesson and reviewing the previous material. On the main activity, she went to the viewing activity, namely pre-viewing, viewing, post-viewing that allowed the students to retain massive amount of information presented on the video. Those activities, however, were expected to make the students easier to gather ideas what to be written. While on the closing, the teacher prepared herself to go out of class. Nevertheless, she asked the entire that was learnt at the day before she went out. The Results of the Questionnaire Since option a and b indicated positive response, while options c and d indicate negative response, and that the students gave their option most on b, followed by a then c and d, in consequence, it can be concluded that most of the students gave positive responses that using folktale video in the classroom can be applied to teach writing of a narrative text. DISCUSSION The Discussion of the Observations Based on the results of the observations on the use of folktale video to teach writing of a narrative text, there were some points that could be further discussed. Those points were dealing with the teacher’s activities, the students’ activities, and the media used. Regarding the use of folktale video to teach writing of a narrative text, the teacher integrated viewing activities, namely: pre viewing, viewing and post viewing that allowed students to retain massive amount of information presented on the video. As Lonergan (1984) states that in using video, the teacher is demanded to have not only a skill to handle the equipment, but also a skill to use various techniques for facilitating the learners. Dealing with the students’ activity, the students were actively involved in the learning process. They responded every teacher’s instruction. They were seriously watching and note-taking when the video played. They answered the questions the teacher asked. They were discussing and proofreading between friends when they wrote. The media given helped the students to perform their writing easily with the right use of generic structure and language features. Thus, the media used was in accordance to the curriculum, that is junior high students were expected to be able to understand and create a narrative text based on its generic structure and language features (BSNP, 2006). The Discussion of the Questionnaire Based on the result of the students’ questionnaire, it was clear that using folktale video to teach writing of a narrative text got positive responses from the students. The video given was made them understand about the topic they learned. Thus, most of the students felt pleased and interested-in the use of the video. As Harmer (2001) confirms that students are showing their interest when they have chance to see and hear the language in use in a particular tasks. Further, considering that writing is perceived as a difficult activity to do, almost all of the students admitted that the use of video as a teaching media was very helpful for their writing activity. What was to be watched, heard and comprehended on the video made them easier get the ideas what to be written on their narrative text, as Chau (2003) states that video makes language more accessible for students by making it easier to integrate and contextualize writing activities. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusion In the teaching and learning process, the teacher integrated pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities that proposed to make the students retain massive amount of information presented on the video and minimize the students’ difficulties in writing activity. Besides, she gave comments and feedback for what they were writing. In addition, the data from the students’ questionnaire showed that the use of folktale video gave positive responses from the students. They admitted that video was very helpful for their writing activity. Suggestions The use of video in language teaching needed to be prepared well by the teachers. They may use various follow-up activities to maximize the use of the video itself. They should also consider the appropriateness of the video in terms of its suitability to the objectives of the lesson, to the availability of time, to the students’ level and interest in order to achieve the optimal learning outcome. Further, since teaching with video gave several benefits, another researcher is encouraged to conduct the study of using the other kinds of video to teach in listening, speaking, or reading activity which not only helps the students minimize difficulties but also develop their skill. REFERENCES Ary, Donald et. al. (2010). Introduction to Research in Education, Eighth Edition. Canada: Wadsworth. Brown, H. Douglas. (2001). Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. Second Edition. New York: A Pearson Education Company. Chau, E. (2003). Developing Beginner Language Skills Through Video. AMEP Conference. Coffin, Trisam P and Stephen, Slater. (1990). Literature in The Language Classroom. Ney York: Cambridge University Press. Harmer, Jeremy. (2001). The Practice of English Language Teaching: Third Edition Completely Revised and Updated. Edinburgh Gate: Pearson Education Limited. Harmer, Jeremy. (2012). Essential Teacher Kowledge: Core Concept in English Laguage Teaching. Edinburgh Gate: Pearson Education Limited. Heubener, Theodore. (1967). Audio-Visual Technique in Teaching Foreign Language. New York: New York University Press. BNSP. (2006). Standar Isi untukSatuanPendidikanDasardanMenengah: StandarKompetensidanKompetensiDasar SMP/MTs.Jakarta.
THE IMPLEMENTATION of PICTURE PUZZLE to TEACH WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT to THE SEVENTH GRADERS
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THE IMPLEMENTATION of PICTURE PUZZLE to TEACH WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT to THE SEVENTH GRADERS Christyanti Juwita English Department, Language and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya Tyannasetya@gmail.com Fahri English Department, Language and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya Fahriali267@yahoo.co.id Abstract This study focuses on the effectiveness of using picture puzzle to teach writing descriptive text. Because this kind of picture generally presents a visual representation of an object,scene,person that can help the students to write descriptive paragraph easily.In this study, the writer used descriptive qualitative research. The writer would describe and analyze the existing phenomena during study. The subject of this study is students of 7-A SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Bungah, Gresik. Moreover,there were three kinds of instruments used in this study, they were observation checklist, questionnaire and students’ writing. The research was conducted in two meeting. In every meeting the teacher gave an assignment.From the result of the study, the use of picture puzzle help the students in writing descriptive text and makes the students easily to identify the generic structure and language feature of descriptive text. It can be proved from the students writing progress in the term of each component. It could be conclude that the use of picture puzzle in composing descriptive writing could stimulate the students’ idea to write a good text. Keywords: Teaching writing, descriptive text, picture puzzle, seventh graders Abstrak Penelitian ini fokus pada efektivitas penggunaan puzzle dalam pengajaran menulis teks deskriptif . Karena jenis gambar umumnya menyajikan representasi visual obyek , adegan , orang yang dapat membantu siswa untuk menulis paragraf deskriptif dengan mudah .Dalam penelitian ini , penulis menggunakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif . Penulis akan mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis fenomena yang ada selama penelitian . Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa dari 7 - A SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Bungah , Gresik . Selain itu, ada tiga jenis instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini , mereka cheklist selama observasi, angket dan hasil menulis siswa . Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam dua pertemuan . Dalam setiap pertemuan guru memberikan tugas kapada siswa.Dari hasil penelitian , penggunaan puzzle bergambar membantu siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif dan membuat siswa mudah untuk mengidentifikasi struktur organisasi dan fitur bahasa teks deskriptif . Hal ini dapat dibuktikan dari siswa memiliki kemajuan menulis dalam jangka waktu masing-masing komponen . Hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan puzzle bergambar dalam menyusun penulisan deskriptif bisa merangsang ide siswa untuk menulis teks yang baik. Kata kunci: Pengajaran menulis , teks deskriptif , puzzle , siswa kelas tujuh . Introduction English is essential to be taught to younger people, for this case; the elementary students up to the senior high school students. In developing the student ability in mastering English, it cannot be sparated from writing mastery bucause it can be as meansurement for students’ English understanding. The need of learning English becomes very important. Indeed, English is the international language that the students of all around the world need to be learned most. Beside, English nowdays has not only become international language which is used in international communication, but also the language of science and technology (Jazadi,2004) The learners should be able to use English just like their own native language, not as knowledge anymore. Furthermore, in order to be a good communicator in English, the learner also have to have good discourse or communication competent. Discourse/communication competent is the competent to comprehend/or produce spoken text/or written text that are formed in the four language skills, they are listening,speaking,reading, and writing skill (Depdiknas,2004:8) Writing is important in the process of language learning. Writing ability develops after the students receive the listening and reading comprehension. It is one way of communication. As stated by Petty and Jansen (1980:361), writing is an important medium for self expression for communication snd the discovery meaning is used to give signal or information to other. Some people also believe that writing skill is a natural talent. Other words it can be said that someone being able to write well because they are destined to be a good writer. As far as researcher know,those all mindset are not 100% true. Young and Savage (1982:135) stated that writing skill could not come automatically. It requires some experiences, attention, and a lot of regular training. Probably, writing is actually difficult, but isnot imposible to someone to master it. Being able to write well is not only depending on the talent. Just remember, that essentially everybody can write, they just do not accustomed to or do not like to write. Just notice, that some skill being able to write well by learning and experiencing the strategies and the principles of writing; and than they practies then continously. To be able to write well are influenced by many aspect,one of them are knowledge, and another experiences. More and more knowledge and the experiences that somebody gahtered will make their writing product more and more than good. Meanwhile,writing is more emphasis in process. Writing process are, in which in order to have a product of writing someoneare should begin it with braistorming, prewriting, drafting, revising; till she/he get the final product of writing. In Lestari paper said that an individual’s success in college is to a great extent determined by his ability to write (2008:1) It means write not only as the subject when the student was obeyed to get high mark but also how they can practise it into reality. In fact many junior high school students, are still have difficulty in write a compositions; even though it is just for simple composition. It also support by the reseacher experiences when she was at the junior high school. There are so many students that are not able to construct smoothly even it is only a short composition. For example, for writing a simple descriptive composition, the students consume a plenty of time to finish it. They look like confuse and do not know with the things that they will write. The reseacher believe that the main problem is rooted in creating idea. Just think if the students can create and organize their ideas smoothly, the reseacher believe that they will able to write faster, better and easier. In teaching learning process, it is not easy to teach writing, especially to the non-native learners. The curriculum asks the students to perform a written text, but they tend to be asked to answer questions in their text book or worksheet rather than organize a text. In addition, in teaching children, teachers are supposed to be more enthusiastic to retain the learners’ attention and arouse their interest. The English teacher plays a very important rule to encourage likeness and curiosty in learning English and develop the students’ acuisition in English. Hailliwell (1992:18) furter said that students love discovering things, they respond well to being asked to use their imagination, they may well be involved in puzzel like activities; in making things, drawing things, games, physical movement or in song. Based on those statement, the researcher chooses Picture puzzle as media to teach and increase the students’writing in English. In teaching writing decsriptive, students have difficulty when they creating and stimulating idea. Because of that problem, teaching writing to the students in the seventh graders is not easy job for the teacher. The english language is very different with mother tongue; it makes them have difficulties in speaking , listening, and writing English. Moreover the teacher needs a good media for teaching writing descriptive to seventh graders student. Then, a solution to solve the problem is using picture as a media in teaching writing descriptive. According to Loukotkova (2009) there are some activities using picture such as picture card games, picture puzzel, flashcard, photograph and magazine pictures , wall charts, posters, blacboard drawing, word picture, picture coloring, etc. Picture puzzel is on of media that the student can create and construct their knowledge thrugh playing with piece of picture. It can be said if picture puzzle is an effective media for answer the problem. The teacher can choose the suitable media, based on the purpose, material and the student condition. To teach writing descriptive text easily, the teacher have to use various media. In this case I uses picture puzzle as a media in teaching writing descriptive text at seventh graders students. In addition, picture puzzle is communicative, interesting and effective way in teaching writing descriptive text. Puzzle is representation or visual likeness of single person objects. Picture puzzle is one way to motivate the students. In picture puzzles, the teacher can manage the class attention, so the teacher gives instructions to the students to arrange the picture puzzle or help the student to improve their writing while they doing their activities easily. It makes the teaching learning process more enjoyable and the lesson more interesting. Thus ,implementation of picture puzzle as a media of teaching writing descriptive text to seventh graders can help the students to get writing mastery after the implementation of picture puzzle in teaching learning process. Methods This study would be used descriptive qualitative as the research design. The process was done within descriptive research which invloved description and analysis without any manipulating the teaching learning activities. As state in Freeman and Longman (1991:11) that in qualitative methodology; the researcher does not set out to test hypotheses, but only observes when present during the observation As the researcher knows that qualitative research had a purpose of describing and analyzing phenomenom, event, social activity, attitude, believe, perception, or someone’s opinion and individual or group,this directed to explain or conclude. Qualitative research had two main purposes, the first was to describe and to explore,and the second was to describe and to explain (Sukamadinata,2005:60) In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative research to get information of “the implementation of picture puzzle to teach writing descriptive text for the seventh graders” . The researcher observed the use of picture puzzle in teaching writing descriptive text in the classroom and the student’s responses to the material used by the teacher. The subject of the study are the students of seventh grade of junior high school students. These student selected with consideration that at their age they are still consider as young learners, who get English lesson at their first level in the junior high school. Another consideration whay the observer chosen the VII- A class of Smp Muhammadiyah 5 Bungah were they had to study about the descriptive text (based on competence and curriculum). And it was expected that they were able to produce descriptive text. The data obtained to answer research question study. The data was about the implementation of picture puzzle in teaching writing process. The data themselves expected to get the information on the whole aspect of the implementation of picture puzzle in writing descriptive text, the students responses toward the implementation of picture puzzle and the students writing after the implementation of picture puzzle. The first data came from observation checklist. The second data come from the result of questionnaire. The third data were result of the students descriptive writing or the students composition. The data used to explain the influence of implementation of picture puzzle in teaching writing descriptive text at the seventh graders. In this study, the researcher could be considered as the key instrument because the researcher conducted a direct observation and analyzed the date. It was state by neuman (1991:355) that the researcher was able to be alert and sensitive to what happened in the observation checklist and questionnaire. After collecting the data, an analysis toward the data was needed. Firstly, the data from observation checklist was analyzed descriptively based on phenomena occurred when the teaching-learning process happening. Secondly, the data from questionnaire. The questionaire would be answered by the students’. It was analyzed descriptively the students’ interest of picture puzzle. The third, the researcher also analyzed and describe the students’ writing in order to know how their descriptive writing after they are thaught by using picture puzzle. In this case , the researcher analyzed the students’ writing using the components of descriptive text (generic structure and linguistic features). Generally, the students writing are analyzed based on five aspect, those are : content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. The scoring are taking from Teaching ESL Composition by Jacobs Holly(1983:140). The result of the students writing task were gave the researcher information about the students ability in writing descriptive text using picture puzzle as a media. After analyzing the data, the researcher would have an organized information about how the media Picture puzzle happened in the real EFL classroom (how the teacher implemented it, how the students responded to it, and how the students writing compositions are,etc). RESULT How is the students’ writing ability of SMP Muhammadiyah 5 in writing descriptive text after they being taugh by picture puzzle. The result of students' writing composition was used to know that the implementation of picture puzzle helped the students in writing descriptive text. The researcher collected the students' writing composition from the first implementation and second implementation. In this case, the researcher suggested grading the students' writing by using ESL composition profile. There were five aspects of ESL composition profile; content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic: Each aspect was categorized into four criteria. Those criteria were excellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Content was an important aspect in composition since it conveyed the main ideas of the writer. The criteria of evaluating the aspect of content are how knowledgeable the text, substantive, thorough development of the thesis, and relevant to the topic/genre are. Here, the researcher discussed and gave examples of student's composition that improved in term of content. Here are example of student writing composition that the category was very good. Figure 4.1 Students writing composition This was kind of students writing composition. Their writings can be categorized as good writing. The content of their writing was clear and understandable enough. Beside that and it had focus on specific participant and relevant to the topic of descriptive text. They could describe it in detail. They did it with a good discussion, although, sometimes they were not in one thought. But they learnt to accept different ideas and then incorporated them into a good paragraph. The organization of students' composition was scored based on how well, logic, fluent, and cohesive the students organized the composition. The organization dealed with the generic structure. In writing descriptive text, the composition produced should consist of thesis statement, arguments, and recommendation. Here, the researcher discussed and gave examples of student's composition that improved in term of organization. The criteria of scoring were excellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. These example below would present the students’ compositions. Figure 4.2 Students writing composition It could be seen that the students could write with the fluent expressions which clearly stated the main ideas they had. It also could be seed that the students wrote in a logical squencing with means they already develop a complete part of descriptive that identification and description. Then they got very good in their compositions. The aspect describe the students knowledge in vocabulary matery. To be specific, it would be presented how far students have mastered new words in their writing. Thus, it was classified four criteria, they are excellent to very good (effective word choice and usage), good (adequate, range, occasionally errors of word/idiom from and choice), fair to poor (limited range, frequent errors, of word/idiom), and poor (confusing, meaning and little knowledge of English vocabulary). Figure 4.3 Students writing composition The examples above showed that the pharagraph consisted of many important ideas, had a good choice of word and used it effectively. Therefore, the students got very good. The aspect of language use dealed with tense, number, word order or function, articles, pronouns, and preposition. Since the composition analyzed was descriptive text, the evaluation of language use included the use of simple present tense, subjective opinions, abstract nouns, adverbs, modals, connective, emotive words, compound and complex compound. Here, the researcher discussed and gave examples of student's composition that improved in term of language use. The criteria of scoring were excellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Figure 4.4 Students writing composition From the examples above it could be seen that the students were able to use the language aspect in the right order. There were few mistakes found in the students’ compositions. In other word, the students did not find any difficulties in this aspect. Most of tenses, word. Articles, pronouns, and preposition were incorrected order. In order to make the composition readable, the students should pay attention to the mechanics of writing. It dealed with the spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Here, the researcher discussed and gave examples of student's composition that improved in term of language use. The criteria of scoring were excellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Figure 4.5 Students writing composition The example above presented very good writing for mechanics. It showed that there were few errors of spelling, punctuation and capitalization. The observations in the implementation of picture puzzle to teach writing descriptive text were done in two times. From the first observation in first implementation, the researcher saw that there were some students got problems in producing sentences. This was caused by their little experiences of writing. Students should often practice writing in order to make them used to create sentences become paragraph. According to Reid (1993: 98), teacher should allow students sample opportunities to write, not just talk about how to write. The teacher should allow the students to practice writing as much as possible. It was used to train them in producing composition. Practically, students were rarely given enough opportunity to practice making sentences in classroom. The students' vocabulary which was limited and the low mastery of grammar led them feel jittery in making composition. However, the researcher concluded that Picture puzzle could increase student's descriptive writing ability. She stated like that because he saw that students were very enthusiastic in writing when they were asked to make a composition based on picture puzzle that they got. The students got inspiration and opinion about the picture. Therefore, they could enjoy writing descriptive text easily by seeing the picture to stimulate ideas in writing descriptive text. Conclusions Picture puzzle can be used to teach writing descriptive text. Teaching descriptive text using picture puzzle is success. It could be seen from students who are very enthusiast in teaching learning process by using picture puzzle. The data from the observation result showed that students’ skills have increased. It was approved from the analysis of students’ composition done by researcher that there was better done by the students. Because teaching writing by using picture puzzle makes students easly to absorb their new knowledge and they can write their idea based on the picture in puzzle then produce good descriptive text. Picture puzzle can help the to look for the ideas in writing the descriptive text. So, they can use new vocabularies creatively. Picture puzzle could help the students in mastery the material related to the descriptive text genre. Previously they said that they do not like learning English and get difficulty to write, especially in writing descriptive text. By using picture puzzle they become interested and more enthusiastic in writing descriptive text. Beside that the teacher also gives them a good motivation while implementing picture puzzle. Students also said that picture puzzle make them easier to get the idea to write descriptive text. References Byrne, Donn.1984.Teaching Writing Skills.Hongkong:Longman Group Ltd Carter, Carol et al.2002. Key to Effective Learning. Third Edition. Upper Saddle River, New York: Pretice Hall Depdiknas. 2004. Kurikulum 2004 Standar Kompetensi Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah pertama dan Madrasa Tsanawiyah. Jakarta:Pusat Kurikulum, Balitbang Depdiknas. Finocchiaro, Mary. 1975. Visual Aids in Teaching English As A Second Language. 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THE USE OF THE WORLD’S SEVEN WONDERS PICTURES TO TEACH DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TO TENTH GRADERS
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THE USE OF THE WORLD’S SEVEN WONDERS PICTURES TO TEACH DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TO TENTH GRADERS Nindia Dara Kartika English Department, Language and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya nindiadara@yahoo.com Fahri English Department, Language and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya fahriahli267@yahoo.co.id Abstract The present study aims to teach how does the implementation of the world’s seven wonders pictures, how their results, and how their responses. This study is descriptive qualitative. The tenth graders of SMA NEGERI 19 Surabaya are the subjects of the study. The data was gained through observation checklists and field notes, the students’ writing compositions, and questionnaire. The research was conducted in two meeting. In every meeting the teacher gave them task in groups. From the result of the study, the use of the world’s seven wonders pictures help the students to encourage and stimulate their writing ability in producing written descriptive text easily and properly based on the generic structure and linguistic features. It can be proved from the progression of students’ writing which scored in the term of each component. Thus, it can be concluded that the use of the world’s seven wonders pictures was run well, because the students had progression in their writing ability. Keywords: the world’s seven wonders pictures, teach, and descriptive writing. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengajarkan tentang bagaimana mengimplementasi media tujuh keajaiban dunia, lalu bagaimana hasil siswa, dan bagaimana tanggapan mereka setelah diajari. Penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Subjek dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X SMA NEGERI 19 Surabaya. Data diperoleh melalui observasi ceklis dan catatan, hasil komposisi menulis siswa, dan kuesioner. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam dua pertemuan. Dalam setiap pertemuan, guru memberikan siswa tugas secara berkelompok. Dari hasil penelitian, penggunaan media tujuh keajaiban dunia dapat membantu siswa mendorong dan merangsang kemampuan menulis mereka di dalam menghasilkan tulisan teks deskripsi dengan mudah dan baik berdasarkan struktur umum dan unsur kebahasaan. Itu dapat dibuktikan dari kemajuan hasil menulis siswa yang dinilai sesuai dengan tiap komponen. Jadi, hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan mediagambar tujuh keajaiban dunia telah berjalan dengan baik, karena siswa mengalami kemajuan pada kemampuan menulis mereka. Kata kunci: gambar tujuh keajaiban dunia, mengajar, dan tulisan deskripsi. INTRODUCTION Educational problems always occur together with developing and increasing the ability of students, situations and environmental conditions, the influence of information and culture, and also the development of science and technology. In essence, the main function of language is a communication. Communication is a process of transferring information form one entity to another. Communication holds the important act for people to socialize with others. Thus, a good communication will bring somebody into a good life. There are two ways of communication, verbal and nonverbal communication. Mehrabian says that verbal communication impact more than fifty percents by nonverbal communication (1967: 248). LaRoche puts writing a skill that ensures students success in every aspect of learning and successes (LaRoche: 2004). Raimes (1983) added that writing also helps students in learning language skills. Joel Salzman simply defines writing as a taking on paper (Salzman on LaRoche: 2001). But it is not simply speech written down on paper. People must learn it. It must be someone to teach it. It is because people learn to speak the first language at home without systematic instruction, where as they are taught at school to write (Raimes: 1983). Moreover, sometimes the students face the difficulties in writing. For instance, writing a descriptive text, it is as one of the aspects of language is actually very necessary in daily life . Writing a description is not only because of academic demands , but also because of the demands of everyday life. Indirectly, in fact we often writing descriptive paragraphs about something or event. For example, when we are in love, we often describe people that we love with the right choice of words. Generally, the men will describe the women who they love specifically, such as about hair , smile , expression, behavior, body shape, and etc. All this overview make the people can imagine the real object someone’s profile easily. However, when the students were asked to create a descriptive paragraph, generally they will encounter obstacles due to hit by a number of concepts and rules that must be understood or followed. Students must write a descriptive paragraph systematically based on the the teacher’s formats. Whereas, sometimes descriptive paragraphs examples given are also very abstract and not at all known to the students. So, how could the students can imagine the description penguins for example, because they seldom or almost never see the real object or drawing penguins. Another case, when the students were assigned to make an overview of their headmaster who is getting mad, definitely they will be able to write descriptive paragraphs with his own style as soon. Constraints in writing descriptive paragraph can actually be overcome with the help of media in learning activities. Using media in learning activities is very important for teachers. The benefit of using media is media helps to enhance the quality in learning. Using media can support the teachers’ materials. Well-designed material takes the wisdom of different accepted learning theorist into account which result in active and effective learning (Kumar, 1998:7). As a result, media is an integral part of the learning activities in order to achieve educational goals. The world’s seven wonders pictures are one of kind of media that can be used for teachers to teach writing about descriptive text. If the students were assigned to make a paragraph description of The Great Wall of China, for example, they would be more easily complete the paragraph when provided an interesting picture. The students easily present the description of The Great Wall of China spesifically, because of the media available. Besides, the students will easily describe the history of that building, the shape, the length and width, the characteristics, and so on. A study of Indah Estu Wilujeng (2008) has elaborated the effectiveness of using pictures in teaching and learning of writing. Her study entitled Pictorial Stories Implementation to Improve the Sixth Grade Students’ Writing Ability at MI Darun Najah Jatirejo Mojokerto. She formulated her research questions as follows: (1) How are the procedures of using pictorial stories in teavhing writing to the sixth grade students of MI Darun Najah Jatirejo Mojokerto? and, (2) Can the implementation of teaching writing using pictorial stories improve the sixth grade students’ writing ability?. At the end of her study, she found that the students had significant improvement from the 1ˢͭ cycle to the last cycle. She believed that the teachnique of presenting pictorial stories in teaching writing was effective and efficient in motivating and increasing the students’ writing ability. In this study, the writer focuses on using pictures of seven wonders of the world for descriptive writing, in which the descriptive has an aim to provide clear descriptions about a certain thing. By using pictures, they display the ideas in visual form. It can helps the students in describing something. Pictures are used in the writing class to help the students in finding her idea and generate it for their writing. This fact will help the teacher in guiding the teaching and learning process while using pictures. METHODS This study is a descriptive qualitative research, because the main aims of the technique are to describe and to explain a natural phenomenon: what is happening?, what is it happening?, why is it happening?, and how is it happening? (Chariri, 2009:9). It is suitable with the objectives of this research, they are to describe the implementation of the world’s seven wonders pictures in writing activity, the students’ writing results, and the students’ responses. The data of a qualitative research are served as interview transcript, field notes, photo, video recording, memo or writing (Hasan, 1990; 27). Thus, the writer is only used the observation checklists and field notes, the questionnaires, and the students’ writing composition. The students of X MIA 6 of SMA NEGERI 19 Surabaya were the participant of this study. It was based on the consideration that they had a distinct demand of curriculum with the eleventh and twelve, that the students are supposed to learn how to write descriptive easily in a specific time allocation was. The data were collected to answer how the implementation of the World’s Seven Wonders Pictures to teach the tenth graders to write descriptive text. There are three sets of data to analyze. The first is the teacher actions as well as the student learning activities during the class, then the second is the students’ responses toward the implementation through their opinions, and the last is the students’ writing compositions. The first data were covered by a set of observation. The observation recorded the teacher’s actions as well as the students’ learning activities responding to what the teacher does, starting from the beginning until the end of the class. It was then followed by observations on some aspects of the teaching materials. The data, gained using checklist and field note, are to answer the first research question. The second data was taken when the researcher passes a close-structured questionnaire to each student. It captured the students’ opinions toward the teaching implementation. This was then to be brought to describe the students’ responses, in regard to answer the second research question. The third data was the data in the form of ESL Composition Profile was used to find out the relation of the topic with the content, through the students’ writing composition. This data is to answer the third research question RESULTS How is the results of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya after being taught by using the world’s seven wonders pictures? The result of students' writing composition was used to know that the implementation of picture puzzle helped the students in writing descriptive text. The researcher collected the students' writing composition from the first and second-day implementation. In this case, the researcher suggested grading the students' writing by using ESL Composition Profile. There were five components of ESL Composition Profile; content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics: Each component was categorized into four criteria. Those criteria were excellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Here were analysis and example of students’ writing composition in first and second meeting. Organization was become one of the important component which we must be concerned in writing. It was scored based on how well organized, fluent expression ideas, good understanding of generic structure, logical sequencing, and cohesive the students organized the composition. Here, the reseacher discussed and gave example of student’s composition that improved in term of organization in first meeting. From the text above, the organization component was excellent to very good because the text had given good understanding of generic structure, one sentence to another sentences were related each other, and well organized. Then, the reseacher gave another example of the student’s writing composition which scored in very poor in term of vocabulary in first meeting. Vocabulary was also part of important component in writing, because in vocabulary dealt word/ idiom choice and usage, word from mastery, and appropriate registeer used. Here was the example of the student’s writing composition in term of vocabulary. From the text above, the vocabulary component was very poor because the text had given little knowledge of English vocabulary, such verb; adjective; adverbial, and the ideas not enough to evaluate. Beside, the researcher gave another example of the student’s writing composition which in term of language use component. The component of language use dealt with tense, number, word order or function, articles, pronouns, and preposition. Since, the composition analyzed was descriptive text, the evaluation of language use included the use of simple present tense, subjective opinions, abstract nouns, adverbs, modals, connective, emotive words, compound and complex compound. Here was the example of the student’s writing composition in term of language use component in first meeting. From the text above, the language use component was fair to poor because the text had major problems in simple construction, frequent errors of agreement, incorrect of tense (Simple Present Tense). Like in the text, which was incorrected of generic structure. Then, the tense should be used Simple Present Tense, but in the text the students used Past Continuous. Moreover, the reseacher gave another example of the student’s writing composition that improved in term of content in seond meeting. Content was an important component in composition, since it conveyed the main ideas of the writer, The criteria were how knowledgeable the text, given complete important ideas and supporting details, and relevant to assigned topic/ genre are. Here, the reseacher gave the example of the student’s writing composition which improved in term of content component. It can be seen from the text above that the content component was good to average because the text was giving some knowledge of subject and adequate important ideas. Furthermore, the students should pay attention to another components in writing composition, that was mechanics, so that their writing composition readable. It dealt with mastery of convention, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing. Here was the example of the student’s writing composition which improved in term of mechanics component. From the text above, it can be seen that the mechanics component was excellent to very because the text was demonstrated mastery of convention, but still hade few errors of spelling. Like in the text, it is written of the word “Jawa”, it should be “Java”, and the word “Supa” in the text, it should be “Stupa”. From the explanation above, it was shown that the students had progression in their writing. Most group of students could create better composition than previous writing. It can be said that “The World’s Seven Wonders Pictures” was appropriate aid to teach descriptive writing to the tenth graders to help them stimulate their ideas to write desciptive writing easily. CONCLUSIONS Having analyzed the whole data in the previous chapter, the reseacher summarizes the result if this research as follows: 1.The implementation did run well. The teacher had successfully conducted the class to have all activities that were outlined in the lesson plan. 2.After helping the teacher in analyzing data obtained during the research, the reseacher concluded that pictures were effective and useful in helping the students to compose descriptive texts. The advantages offered by this media could motivate the students’ willingness to write. The students were always enthusiastic whenever the teacher shared different pictures in each meeting. In short, the goals expected by both the teacher and the reseacher are completely reached. 3.At the end of the second meeting, the students had reached the better score. In short, the reseacher concluded that this study had successfully achieved its goals by seeing them from the teaching and learning process and the students’ achievement. REFERENCES Hasan, Zaini M. 1990. Karakteristik Penelitian Kualitatif. Malang: Yayasan Asah Asih Asuh. LaRoche, Kelly Morisson. 1993. A Focus on Prewriting and Knowledge Level Strategies and Skills to Improve the Attitudes and Writing Skills of Middle School Students (report). Practicum Report. Nova University Reimer, Casey Nicolle. 2001. Strategies for Writing to Primary Students Using the Writing Process. Master’s thesis. Biola University Raimes, Ann. 1983. Technique in Teaching Writing. New York: Oxford University Press Wilujeng, Indah. (2008). 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DEVELOPING ENGLISH-OPOLY GAME AS A MEDIUM TO TEACH THE 8TH GRADERS SPEAKING RECOUNT TEXT
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DEVELOPING ENGLISH-OPOLY GAME AS A MEDIUM TO TEACH THE 8TH GRADERS SPEAKING RECOUNT TEXT Agnesia Gita Flamboyan English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya gita.flamboyan@yahoo.com Lies Amin Lestari English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya lies.aminlestari@yahoo.com Abstrak Berbicara dianggap sebagai keterampilan yang paling sulit dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris. Observasi awal yang dilakukan di SMP 1 Ngoro menunjukkan bahwa para siswa mempunyai kemampuan yang baik dalam mengerti pelajara, namun mereka selalu ragu untuk berbicara. Para siswa membutuhkan suasana yang santai untuk belajar Bahasa Inggris di dalam kelas. Berbicara teks recount tidak bisa hanya dilakukan dengan mengerti struktur umumnya saja, tetapi juga perlu latihan untuk mengungkapkannya. Oleh karena itu, permainan modifikasi seperti English-opoly dibutuhkan sebagai media baru untuk membantu para siswa berbicara teks recount dengan cara yang menyenangkan. Karena permainan membuat suasana menyenangkan dan santai (Uberman, 1998). Penelitian ini menggunakan model R & D oleh Borg dan Gall untuk mengubah permainan monopoli biasa menjadi permainan bernama English-opoly yang digunakan untuk mengajar siswa kelas 8 berbicara teks recount. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga untuk mengetahui respon siswa terhadap permainan yang dikembangkan tersebut. Validasi ahlis menunjukkan bahwa game ini cocok untuk membantu siswa mencapai tujuan pembelajaran. Game ini juga memenuhi criteria sebagai permainan yang baik untuk digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran. Selanjutnya data dari observasi dan wawancara menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar siswa memberikan respon yang baik dan setuju bahwa English-opoly bisa membantu mereka dalam belajar untuk berbicara teks recount. Kata Kunci: Berbicara, English-Opoly, Permainan, Siswa Kelas 8 Abstract Speaking is considered as the most difficult skill in learning English. An early observation done in SMPN 1 Ngoro showed that the students were good in understanding the lesson, but they were hesitant to speak. They needed more relaxing atmosphere in learning English in the classroom. Speaking recount text can not be measured by one’s knowledge on generic structure only, but it should also be measured by practicing to express it. Therefore modified game like English-opoly is needed as a new medium to help the students speak recount text easily in a fun way. Because games create fun and relaxing atmosphere (Uberman, 1998). This study used R & D model by Borg and Gall to develop the conventional monopoly game to become English-opoly for the teaching of speaking recount text to the eighth graders. Besides, this study also investigated the students’ responses toward the implementation of the game developed. The expert validation showed that the game is appropriate for the students to help develop objectives of the study. This game also fulfills the criteria of a good game as teaching medium. Furthermore, data from observation and interview showed that most of the students gave positive response and agree that English-opoly is helpful for them in learning speaking Recount text. Keywords: Speaking, English-opoly, Game, Recount Text, Eighth graders INTRODUCTION One of the hardest aspects for the teacher to help the students with is learning to talk in the foreign language HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_3" (Brown & Yule, 1983). It could be said that teaching speaking is challenging for most Indonesian students find it very difficult to speak in English. The difficulties to speak are caused by some reasons; the students' characteristic, the typical classroom activity, and the teacher's way of teaching. Junior High School Students are categorized as young learners who still love spending their time with friends and being trouble makers in the class. The years of early adolescents can be difficult, but they can also be an exciting time for them to learn HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_5" (Casas, 2011). Therefore, students can be great learners if the teacher can engage them and involve them more in an interesting learning activity. However, in the practice of teaching speaking nowadays, the class does not provide an atmosphere which motivates the students to learn speaking; they are made-up to sit nicely in the classroom and listen to the teacher who knows everything and always be dominant in the classroom HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_10" (Lestari, 1999). In addition, studying in a large class with limited time demotivate the students to practice speaking HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_13" (Songsiri, 2012). Moreover, speaking, as the most difficult skill to learn, is taught in more limited time. Furthermore, most of the teachers still rely on textbooks as the primary teaching resource HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_7" (Faridi, 2010). Likewise, the teacher uses most of the time to explain the lesson from textbook while the students are listening quietly. In Indonesia, the students are learning English on text based. One of the texts learnt in Junior High School especially in the 8th grade is the recount text. Traditionally, in learning speaking recount text, the students are provided with a generic structure which is aimed to guide them producing an oral recount text. However, it was found that even a clear generic structure is not enough to help them arrange a good recount text; they need a clearer instruction and also models or examples of recount text. In fact, explanation from the teacher is a typical activity which demotivates the students and gives less opportunity for them to practice speaking. They need a change in learning English to make them active in learning, understand the lesson clearly then finally apply their knowledge. This poor condition can be overcome by changing the way of teaching and reforming classroom activities which fit the students' characteristic; one of the ways is by creating relaxing atmosphere in the classroom so that the students will not be afraid of speaking in front of the classroom HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_6" (Davies & Pearse, 2000). Based on the consideration, the students can practice speaking well if they are given relaxing and less-pressure opportunities. One of the ways to create relaxing and less-pressure atmosphere is applying fun yet educational media in the classroom. Media play important roles in teaching and learning process, they are used to entertain, to inform and to instruct HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_11" (Locatis & Atkinson, 1984). In applying teaching media, some important considerations should be taken; the media should be enjoyable so that the students can forget the boredom of studying. It should also be able to help the teacher deliver the lesson and instruction to the students easily. The most important point is that if the media applied in the classroom are not suitable for the students, they may be bored and lose their interest to participate in the classroom HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_8" (Harmer, 2007). Thus, the teacher needs a medium that is appropriate for the students and able to engage them to be active in practicing English. Among many kinds of media, games are considered as the best media to teach speaking English. It is so since games create fun and relaxing atmosphere HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_14" (Uberman, 1998). Additionally, the students will try harder in games than other courses HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_1" (Avedon & Smith, 1975). While students are playing the game, they try their best so that they can forget that they are actually studying; while in the same time they can get the knowledge. It could be said that game is an effective medium of instruction since it brings both fun and educational atmosphere. Hence, a game called English-opoly was developed to help the students learn speaking. English-opoly was the modified version of the conventional monopoly which was developed to become a medium in teaching speaking recount text. It is expected that by playing this game, the students could actively speak English and meet the objective of learning to speak recount text easily. Thus, some modifications were made so that the game suits the needs of the teaching and learning process. In English-opoly, a board, two dices, tokens, deed cards and chance cards are the properties to play the game. In the conventional monopoly's board, there are forty spaces with the name of countries in each block, while English-opoly board is divided into four blocks. There are six spaces in each block, and each space is called as the theme. Since English-opoly is a medium for speaking recount text, the theme of the board is holiday. Furthermore, the title of deed cards in the conventional monopoly is usually named as countries or cities, while in English-opoly, the deed cards consisted of incomplete sentences of orientation and events. Therefore, this research was intended to develop English-opoly for the teaching of speaking recount text to the 8th graders. Additionally, this research also investigated the students' responses toward the implementation of the game developed. METHOD This study used research and development method with qualitative approach. Research and Development (R & D) is a process used to develop new educational products which are systematically field tested, evaluated, and revised until they meet specific criteria of effectiveness HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_2" (Borg & Gall, 1983). For the purpose of this study, all steps in Borg and Gall's R and D design were not fully taken. A modification of Borg and Gall's design are made. Research steps such as Dissemination and Implementation were left so that the steps taken in developing the English-opoly game were information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, material and media expert validation, preliminary field testing, main product revision, main field testing, and final product revision. Since the research was intended to develop a new game as teaching media, media and material experts were involved to validate that the game is appropriate to be used as a medium of an instruction. The material expert for this study was an English teacher of a school in Jombang while the media expert in this research was a lecturer of Graphic Design Department of Surabaya State Uniersity. To develop the game, preliminary and main field tests were done. The field tests were conducted in SMP Negeri 1 Ngoro to know the students response toward the game. The sample of the population was taken randomly for this study. There were 8 students in the preliminary field test and 16 students in the main field test. The data of this study was collected using three instruments; a questionnaire, an observation checklist and interviews guidelines. The semi-structure questionnaire was used for both media expert and material expert. There were four aspects covered in the questionnaire; i.e. the suitability of the material to the students, the effect of the product towards the students, the applicability, the design and the language of the game. An observation checklist was included to the structure observation and was used to get the data of the second research question. There were some indicators in the checklist where the writer gave the tick (√) on them. They were about the appearance and the content of English-opoly game, and also students’ acts while playing this game. The interview was done to the students and the teacher. The interview for students was aimed to know the students' responses toward this game while the interview for the teacher was aimed to know whether the game fitted the students. In conducting this study, a qualitative data analysis was used. The data was analyzed based on the order of data collection technique. First, the data gained from the questionnaire filled by the experts were analyzed to revise the product to be tested in main field. Second, the data got from observation checklist and interviews were analyzed too. After the main field testing was done, the data from experts' answers on the questionnaire, the result of the interview, and the observation checklist were analyzed. RESULTS Based on the data obtained from the questionnaire given to the material expert, it was revealed that the students were considered very familiar with the conventional monopoly game. That is why it was answered that the students understood the rules of English-opoly, for it was clearly written and it was not very different from the conventional monopoly rules. Furthermore, the material used in English-opoly was really appropriate with the objectives of learning speaking English for the eighth graders. She agreed that the material used in the game was also not too appropriate for the students. In addition, she also mentioned that the material of the recount text was also interesting for the students. Besides, she undoubted that this game would be able to help the students understand recount text. Moreover, this game would be able to engage the students to be more active and fluent in speaking English. Generally, the modification done in the conventional monopoly to be English-opoly was really good according to her since it was very engaging and she believed it made the students more enthusiastic in learning. The review from media experts contained the judgment of the design and appearance of the product developed. According to the media expert, the students were familiar with the conventional Monopoly game. Conventional monopoly game was the monopoly game that was usually found in toy stores and played by children and adolescences. This English-opoly game which was modified from the conventional monopoly game was also expected to be easy for the eighth graders. However, he suggested that some modifications on the design of the board, the fonts, and packaging. The colors of English-opoly board and cards were considered to be interesting for the students. The text on the board and the cards were good, but he thought that the draft should be modified since there were some unclear text; i.e. the texts on the corner of the board. The expert also suggested the logo of the product should be redesigned in order that became the centre of interest. The design of the draft product considered less interesting for some of the students. The most important thing which became the problem for him was the packaging. He did not like the package which was made from plain thick paper. Thus the packaging needed to be redesigned by adding some illustration or pictures on it. However, the material used for English-opoly game such as the papers were appropriate. Although there were many colors and pictures, the media expert agreed it would not bother students' focus on the lesson. Overall, English-opoly was able to increase students' enthusiasm in learning and it was appropriate to become a media in learning English in the class, however there were some revision for the draft to make the product better and suitable. In preliminary field testing, the data were obtained from the observation and the interview to the students. From the observation, it was known that the students well understood how to play the game. However there were some students who did not actively involved in the activity. The teacher also did not find any difficulty in implementing the game in the class. But then, the teacher found that it was ineffective if a board of English-opoly was played by 8 students. She suggested that a board of English-opoly was played by 4 students only. After the field test, 8 questions were addressed to 8 students. The interview was aimed to know the students' responses toward English-opoly game. The first question was intended to know the students' familiarity toward monopoly. All subjects stated that they knew conventional monopoly well. Five of eight students considered that English-opoly was easy to play while three students found difficulties such as in reading the chance cards, working together with friends and finding the deed cards. From the interview it was known that all subjects had understood the rules of English-opoly. Moreover, six of eight students said that the color and design of the board were interesting, but two of the students said that the color was less bright. The fifth question meant to know the students' opinion about the whole game. Most of them said that playing English-opoly was fun and they could forget that they were studying. The sixth, seventh and eighth questions were intended to know the interest of the students toward the game. It was known that eight or all of the students felt happy after playing English-opoly. They also thought that the game was very helpful for them to learn speaking and recount text so they all wanted to play it again. Previously, in English-opoly rules, it was written that the students had to collect a deed card consisted of orientation and three or four deed cards of events. Then the material expert suggested changing the rule for saving the time. So the students had to collect 4 cards, they were a deed card of orientation, 2 cards of events and a card of reorientation. Next, the changing also had to be done to the deed cards. Some deed cards were considered to be unclear for the students. Thus, some information should be added to the cards. For example, the card that was written "go to Bedugul" had to be changed to become "go to Bedugul lake" because not all students knew what Bedugul was. The material expert also suggested adding pictures to the deed cards. It was believed to help the students arrange the recount text. Also, the prior design of the English-opoly board was very simple. Then, the media expert suggested redesigning the board so it looked more attractive. The illustration should be added on the centre of the board. Besides, the fonts of the word "English-opoly" should be changed to make it became the logo and the centre of interest of the product. In the second field test, it was acknowledged that the students found that it was easy to play English-opoly. The teacher also seemed more easily implemented the game and managed the class since the rule of playing the game was changed. Beside the data got from the observation, in the second field test, the data were gained from the interview to the students and the teacher. The first interview which consisted of 8 questions was addressed to 16 students. The interview aimed to know the students' response toward the game. The interview result of the second field test showed that all of the 16 students had known monopoly well; however there were a student found that it was difficult to play English-opoly because she could not easily collect the deed cards. The next questions dealt with the feature the game such as the board design and the color. All of the 16 students liked the design and the color of the board. To know how the game affected the students, the sixth, seventh and eighth question were delivered. Then it was known that all students considered that the game was engaging, fun and helpful. However, there was a student said that she would not play the game anymore because she felt bored, while 15 students were willing to play the game more. After interviewing the students, the researcher asked the teacher 8 questions to know the teachers responses toward the implementation of the game. The interview also aimed to get more suggestion to revise the product and to know the material appropriateness during the first and the second testing. According to the teacher's answer of the first question, it was known that almost all students had been very familiar with the conventional monopoly game. He considered that the modification of the conventional monopoly game to become English-opoly was quite good idea since it could make the students become more enthusiastic in learning English. Then, when the teacher was asked about the difficulties of the implementation of the game, he said that the only problem found was when the teacher organized the students to be grouped in the first field test. But in the second field test it was easier to organize the class because the students only needed to turn around their seats to be in a group of 4. Moreover, when the teacher was asked whether there was something that had to be added in the game, he said that there was nothing to be added because the game had been appropriate for the students, especially about things related to the material and also the age of the students. Related to the implementation, the teacher suggested that the time should be longer than 15 minutes to play the game. He also gave some suggestion that it would better to have 4 students in group as in the second field-test rather than 8 students in a group as in the first field-test. Related to the teacher's response toward the implementation of the game, there were two things to be revised. They were the time allocation and the group organization. The time allocation was revised to become 20 minutes to play the game. Then, to make it easier for the teacher to organize the class, the group organization was decided to be 4 students in a group for each board of English-opoly. After doing the main field test, to make a best product, the questionnaire was given to the media expert for the second time because at the first questionnaire, it showed that the media was very far from criteria of effectiveness. On the second questionnaire, media expert suggested that the size of the package should be smaller. In result, the board has to be flipped 2 times before being put in the smaller box or package. Then the material for the package should be changed to duplex paper so that it could be stronger and safer to keep the board, cards, tokens and dices. However, generally the whole design and media had been improved and good. Thus he stated that English-opoly could be used as media to teach English after the revision of the package size. After revising English-opoly based on the experts' review and the field tests, the final product of English-opoly was gained. The appearance of the final product of the board and package of English-opoly could be seen in the picture below Picture 1 Final product of English-opoly In the final product of English-opoly game, some features were revised and changed. The pictures on the board were brighter, the design illustration of whole board was much better and the fonts were clearer than it was in the preliminary design. Generally, the final product had had good combination between color, font and picture. The material used for the game was also changed into better quality paper. Moreover the package was now simpler because it was smaller. The rule of the game was also added to the package, so the students could read the rule themselves. DISCUSSION This study was intended to create English-opoly game by developing the conventional monopoly game to become English-opoly for the teaching of speaking recount text to the 8th graders and to investigate the students' responses toward the implementation of the game developed. Carrier HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_4" (1980) believed that when the level of the game fit the students' language level, they can learn English more from the game. According to the judgment of the material expert, the material used in English-opoly suited the learning objectives of the eighth graders. Data gained from the questionnaire to the material expert said that the language used in the game also fitted students' comprehension. Thus, English-opoly was appropriate to be used as media to teach the eighth graders. Based on the responses of the students through the interview, the students found out that the game was enjoyable and so they had fun during playing the game. Furthermore, the game was also educational and English promoting since the students agreed that they could easily produce recount text and they had more time to practice speaking English by presenting it orally in front of their friends after playing the game. Hence, based on the positive responses from the students, it could be inferred that the game was applicable to teach speaking recount text based on the fact that English-opoly fulfilled five criteria; engaging, easy to use enjoyable, educational, English promoting HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_9" (Hill, Sumarniningsih, & Lestari, 2013). Additionally, the result of the observation during the tests and the interview after the first and the second field test had shown that while the students were playing the game, they enjoyed it and felt relax. It was in line with the theory that games create a fun and relaxing atmosphere HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_14" (Uberman, 1998). Avedon and Smith (1975) believed that the students always try harder in games than other courses. This condition happened during the observation; it was known that the students were very enthusiastic. They tried hard to collect the deed cards to make recount text when playing the game. After playing the game, the students had to express their recount text in front of their friends, and the relaxing atmosphere brought by the game made the students easy to prepare what they were going say in the presentation. Therefore, good preparation in a relaxing atmosphere made the students confident in presenting their text. It proved the theory that game is designed to foster creativity, develop fluency, and improve public speaking skills HYPERLINK \l "_ENREF_12" (Rooyackers, 2002
The Effectiveness 0f Using Monolingual Dictionary In Reading Comprehension of Eleventh Multimedia Smk N 12 Surabaya
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The Effectiveness 0f Using Monolingual Dictionary In Reading Comprehension of Eleventh Multimedia Smk N 12 Surabaya Difa Kharizma Yuniar English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya d4kharizma@gmail.com FaurisZuhri, S.Pd.,M.Hum. English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Abstract The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference in the reading comprehension between the students who use monolingual dictionary and those who do not. This research is experimental quantitative research design. The researcher used a test as an instrument to answer research question. The data were taken by the scores of the students test. Therefore, the data were in the form of numbers. The population was the eleventh graders of SMK N 12 Surabaya, while the samples were class XI Multimedia 2 as the experimental group and XI Multimedia 3 as the control group. To get the data, those two groups were given tests; try out, pre-test, and post-test. From the data, the researcher calculated by using statistical computation. The researcher used t-test formula to analyze the comparison of the post-test scores between the experimental and control group in order to see the significant difference. The result of the study shows that the post-test scores of the experimental group were higher than the control group. It is proven that using monolingual dictionary is effective in reading comprehension for the eleventh graders since there is a significant difference between the scores of between they who were taught by using monolingual dictionary than they who were not. Abstrak Tujuandaripenelitianiniadalahmenemukanbahwaadaperbedaandalampemahamanmembacapasdasiswa yang menggunakankamus monolingual dansiswa yang tidakmenggunakankamus monolingual. Jenispenelitian in adalah experimental quantitative. Penelitimenggunakantessebagai instrument untukmenjawabrumusanmasalah. Data diambildarinilaihasiltessiswadalambentukangka. Populasipenelitianiniadalahsiswakelassebelas SMK N 12 Surabaya, dengansampelnyaadalahkelas XI Multimedia 2 sebagai experimental grupdan XI multimedia 3sebagai kontrolgrup. Untukmemperoleh data, keduagruptersebutdiberikantesyaitu tryout, pretesdanpostes. Data yang diperolehdiolahmenggunakaperhitungan statistic yaiturumus t-test. Hasil yang diperolehmenunjukanbahwanilaipostesdari experimental gruplebihtinggidarinilaipostes control grup. Inimembuktikanbahwapenggunaankamus monolingual efektifdalampemahamanmembacasiswakelassebelas, terlihatdariadanyaperbedaan yang signifikanpadanilaitessiswa yang menggunakankamus monolingual dansiswa yang tidakmenggunakankamus monolingual. INTRODUCTION “In order to read, students must be able to decode (sound out) and also comprehend what they read “ (Linse , 2006:69). When students decode, they just learn and know how to pronounce written words correctly. It doesn’t mean they can read. They have to comprehend what they read. Reading without comprehension is not reading. Reading comprehension is a part of learning process that should be done by students in the learning and teaching process. Being able to comprehend accurately becomes difficult for students. Majid (2005:61-62) state that some people who have efficient to read their own language cannot efficiently read the foreign language because they don’t know the language enough. That is happen when they start to find out or to know exactly the meaning of one of sentence or word in a passage but they fail. So, they cannot catch the point of the passage and they cannot answer the questions about the passage well (if there are questions). “Being able to comprehend a text accurately and at a relatively rapid rate presupposes rather extensive knowledge of vocabulary and grammar” state (Celce-Murcia, &Mcintosh in Hayati study, 2005:62). Vocabularies become very important when students read. Many students still don’t have enough vocabulary to help them to read a passage. It is an obstacle that related to the students themselves. Without having a well understand of vocabulary the process of reading might break down. Reading and vocabulary have a bilateral relationships, one is not possible without another one. Because of that problem, students need a help for their reading comprehension. The using of dictionary in reading is very helpful for students. Finding the meaning of a word can be easily found through a dictionary. When the students have a few vocabularies when they read, it can be helped by using dictionary and they will have more vocabularies. When students have a passage to read, they often don’t know more than five difficult words. Using dictionary can solve that problem. “Dictionaries have been advocated as an important aid to learners of new languages” (Jacobs, 1989:2). Dictionary is very important for students that learn foreign language; it’s kind of a bridge for their first language to the second language. Dictionary will give new information, that is the meaning of the new word and give a new vocabulary for the students. Today there are a number of dictionaries, called monolingual learner's dictionaries (MLDs), written especially for learners of English. Monolingual dictionary is a dictionary with one language, in this case is English. It can help students in reading comprehension. It will give the students the meaning of the word in reading text and it will give more knowledge in vocabulary. The monolingual dictionary gives long explanation in one language, in this case is English and it makes students understand the sentence well. Based on the finding of the previous study, there is an analogy from Atkins and Varantola (1988:22), “Monolinguals are good for you like whole meal bread and green vegetables and bilinguals, like alcohol, sugar, and fatty foods, are not, though you may like them better”. They also report that using monolingual dictionary had a better chance of success than bilingual dictionary. The learners or the students maybe feel easier and more comfortable by using bilingual dictionary but using monolingual dictionary makes they understand the language better than bilingual dictionary. Monolingual dictionary is dictionary with one language inside. In this case is English. This kind of dictionary explains the meaning of one word with the same language and long explanation. Baxter in Hayati study (2006:126) stated that a monolingual dictionary not only demonstrates definitions as alternative to the use of lexical items but also provides the means to employ definitions. It can be said that monolingual dictionary gives a complete definition that the readers’ need for unknown word. The advantages of using monolingual dictionary is the reader will have all of the information that they need about one word because of the long explanation that monolingual dictionary has. The monolingual dictionary give more detailed and information about the word, for example information about idiomatic usage, common collocations amd connotations (Laufer and Melamed, 1994:565). For very simple example the meaning of word “apple”, “Apple is a round fruit with shiny red or green skin and white flesh” (Oxford, 2011:17). For the explanation of ‘apple’ in monolingual dictionary, named Oxford dictionary the readers get complete explanation. The readers can imagine the shape, the color of apple and they will know the meaning of apple correctly. Monolingual dictionary is not just translating the word but it explains the detail of that word. So, the readers will understand in deep about the word, especially the unknown word. The other previous study is conducted by Ali (2012). The title is “Monolingual Dictionary Use in an EFL Context”, this study is about exploring the teachers’ and students’ attitudes about the use of the dictionaries. The researcher of this study found that the teachers prefer their students to use monolingual dictionaries because they will help them acquire foreign language more effectively and that the bilingual dictionaries are just for translating. METHOD Dealing with the research question, the researcher chooses experimental quantitative research design. Focus of this study is in the result that was gotten by the score of students’ test. In this design, there are two groups which are used to conduct this study. They were experimental group (XI Multimedia 2) and control group (XI Multimedia 3). Both of the two groups were given a pre-test to know their reading ability. Then the experimental group was given a treatment by using monolingual dictionary in reading comprehension. This subject of this study is the eleventh graders of SMK N 12 Surabaya. This based on some reasons. The first is about the curriculum. Reading comprehension is taught in the vocational high school, and eleventh graders are the best because they are in the middle of year that they study as vocational high school students. This is in line with the lesson that will be taught in this study. The second is about the eleventh graders are already know about dictionary and know how to use it. The instrument of this study was reading comprehension test. There were two kinds of test, pretest and posttest. But, before conducting pretest and posttest, it was tryout in order to get the appropriate of the test itself.The try-out test was tested to the students of XI Multimedia 1 SMK N 1 Banyuwangi. After the researcher got the data, an analysis for the data is needed. The independent sample t-test is used to analyze the data. The score of the whole groups will calculate using t-test formula. Because this is a quantitative research, it needs data with number. After analyzing the data, the researcher will made a general conclusion about this study. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION After administering pretest for two groups, the researcher tabulated the pretest scores of experimental and control groups, and then the Mean of experimental and control group were calculated. Based on the calculation of the scores, it was found that the Mean of the experimental group was 65.83 and control group was 65.31 and the t-value is 0.21. T-value was lower than t-table (2.00). It means that the result of the calculation is not significant or there was no significant difference of the pretest scores of both groups. From that scores and the result of the calculation, the researcher found that the students of the two groups had equal abilities in reading comprehension before the treatments were given. After administering pretest of two groups and giving the treatments for two times to the experimental group, the researcher conducted a post-test for two groups. Post-test was done to know the improvement of the students after they were given the treatment, and also to compare the result with another class which was not given the treatment The result of posttest scores of the experimental and the control group were 2420 for experimental group and 2320 for control group. The mean of posttest scores of experimental group was 80.67 and for control group were 72.5. It was clearly seen that the mean of experimental group posttest score was higher than the control group. After that the researcher calculated the t-test and the result is 4.44 for t-value. Then, the t-value was compared with t-table 0.05 level of significant, while the degree of freedom (df) is 60. T-value was higher than t-table. It means that the result of the calculation is significant or there was significant difference of the posttest scores of both groups. In other words, there is a significant improvement between those who were taught reading comprehension by using monolingual dictionary and those who were not. Since the result of the posttest scores showed that the t-value is higher than the t-table while the scores was increasing significantly, it clearly seen that there is a significant difference between they who were taught using monolingual dictionary and they who are not. It proves that using monolingual dictionary is effective for eleventh graders in SMK N 12 Surabaya to improve their reading comprehension. CONCLUSION Based on the result of this study and the calculation of the data, it can be said that teaching reading comprehension by using monolingual dictionary can improve students’ ability in comprehending the text. The student can get their improvement of reading test after being taught by using monolingual dictionary. It can be proven by showing the scores of two groups which have been investigated. The mean of posttest of the experimental is 80.67 and control group is 72.5. It was found that the t-value of the t-test (4.44) was higher than the t table (2.00). Therefore, there was a significant difference between the students who are taught by using monolingual dictionary (experimental group) and those who are not (control group). The research question of this study has been answered well. It means that the teaching reading comprehension for eleventh graders by using monolingual dictionary helps the students to comprehend the text well and reach a higher score. If the teacher is using monolingual dictionary to teach reading comprehension, the students can clearly understand the text well. In conclusion, it must be clear that using monolingual dictionary is one of the effective teaching reading tools that can be used to teach reading comprehension in the classroom. REFERENCES Ali, H. B. H. (2012). Monolingual Dictionary Use in an EFL Context. English Language Teaching, 5(7), 2-7. Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Sorensen, C. K., & Razavieh, A. (2010).Inroduction to Research in Education (8th Ed). USA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Budiantari, P. Y., Nitiasih, P. K., Budasi, I. G. (2013). Developing Authentic Reading Material for the Tenth Year Students of State Vocational High School 1 Kubutambahan. e-Journal Program Pascasarjana Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, 1. Brown, H Douglas. (2004). Language Assessment Principles and Classroom Practices. USA: Longman. Harmer, Jeremy. (2007). Practise Of Language Teaching.Fourth (Ed). England: Longman. Hayati, A Majid., & Fattahzadeh, A. (2006). The Effect of Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries on Vocabulary Recall and Retention of EFL Learners. The Reading Matrix, 6(2), 125-127. Hayati, A Majid., & Pourmohammadi, M. (2005). A Comparative Study of Using Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionaries in Reading Comprehension of Intermediate EFL Students. The Reading Matrix, 5(2), 61-66. Jacobs, George M. (1989). Dictionaries Can Help Writing--If Students Know How To Use Them. Paper presented at EDRS, Thailand. Linse, Caroline T. (2006). Practical English Language Teaching: Young Learners. 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Teaching Speaking of Narrative Text through Storytelling to the Tenth Graders in MAN 2 kota Kediri
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Teaching Speaking of Narrative Text through Storytelling to the Tenth Graders in MAN 2 kota Kediri Mokhamad Gufron English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya ghufronman@gmail.com Fauris Zuhri, S.Pd., M.Hum. English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Abstract Based on the objective of study of English in senior high school, the students have to master narrative text in speaking skill. Since narrative text mostly in form of stories, storytelling is applied in English speaking classroom to enable them to speak narrative. Since the research is descriptive qualitative, it would describe the phenomenon that is teaching speaking of narrative text through storytelling in which the students are in the tenth grade of senior high school. The researcher conducts the observation and the questionnaire to get the data. The data is also obtained from the students’ speaking assessment task. From the result of the research, storytelling which is applied in narrative speaking classroom is engaging for the students. Most of the students are enjoyable to learn speaking through storytelling. Thus, most of their ability in narrative speaking through storytelling is good. In conclusion, the researcher finds that storytelling is a suitable technique to teach narrative speaking to the students; moreover the students are interested in learning speaking through storytelling. Abstrak Berdasarkan pada tujuan pembelajaran bahasa Inggris di Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA), siswa harus menguasai teks naratif dalam kemampuan berbicara. Karena teks naratif sebagian besar dalam bentuk cerita, storytelling digunakan dalam kelas berbicara bahasa inggris supaya siswa mampu berbicara secara naratif. Oleh karena penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif, penelitian ini akan menggambarkan fenomena pengajaran berbicara teks naratif dengan bercerita dimana para siswa adalah siswa-siswi kelas X SMA. Peneliti melakukan observasi dan menggunakan kuesioner untuk mendapatkan data. Selain itu data juga didapat dari tugas berbicara siswa. Dari hasil penelitian, storytelling yang diaplikasikan di kelas berbicara naratif adalah menarik bagi siswa. Sebagian besar siswa menikmati belajar berbicara dengan storytelling. oleh karena itu kemampuan mereka dalam berbicara naratif adalah baik. Pada kesimpulannya, peneliti mengemukakan bahwa storytelling adalah teknik yang tepat untuk mengajar berbicara naratif kepada siswa. Lebih dari itu, siswa tertarik pada pembelajaran berbicara dengan storytelling. INTRODUCTION Students of senior high school have to master several genres in the end of teaching and learning activity. It means that they have to master those genres in language skills including speaking. One of the genres which is learned is narrative text. According to Anderson, narrative text tells about something happened in the past, and its purpose is to amuse the reader. Conducting an oral activity should be done in careful ways because not all students are experienced in speaking English. The problem may arise in the initiation of the performance, perhaps it is difficult to get started students to speak. The students who unconfident might be fail because they are afraid of making mistake, here the teacher should emphasis that making mistake in learning is a natural matter. Due to the factors which influence speaking, storytelling is implemented to teach narrative speaking in the classroom to encourage the students to speak. As stated by Davis (2007:4) storytelling grew from the playful elements of human nature and satisfied a need for self-entertainment. Moreover the students are familiar with storytelling because it has been existed in the culture since long ago, records in storytelling have been found in many ancient cultures and languages, including Sanskirt, Old German, Latin, Chinese, Greek, Iceland, and Old Slavonic (Davis, 2007:3). That is why using storytelling is an effective way to teach narrative text. Speaking is the natural language which is used most by people in daily life. Thornbury also defines speaking as speech production which takes place in real time and is therefore essentially linier. Talking about speaking is something important however based on history, language teaching concerned more on written language than speaking language (Brown and Yule, 1983). Moreover Brown and Yule also stated that the function of speaking is drawn from two basic language functions, these are transactional function which is primarily concerned with the transfer of information, and the interactional function in which the primarily purpose of speech is the maintenance the social relationship. There are two forms of speaking, those are monologue and dialogue. Nunan (1989:27) points out that monologue speaking which is the ability to give an uninterrupted oral presentation is quite distinct than interacting with one or more than other speakers for transactional and interactional purpose. It means that not all the speakers are able to speak monologue well without any preparation even though they are native speaker. According to brown and Yule frame work in Richard (2008:21) there are three different functions of speaking namely talk as interaction, talk as transaction and talk as performance. Talk as performance refers to public talk, that is talk to transmit information before an audience, such as classroom presentations, public announcements and speeches. It tends to be in form of monolog rather than in dialog, often follows a recognizable format (e.g., a speech of welcome), and is closer to written language than conversational language (Richards, 2008:27). Teaching talk as performance a different strategy, as stated by Jones in Richards (2008: 35), initially, talk as performance needs to be prepared for and scaffold in much in the same way of written text, and many of the teaching strategies used to make understanding of written text accessible can be applied to the formal uses of spoken language. Good speaking activities can and should be extremely engaging for the students. If they are participating fully – and if the teacher has set up the activity properly and can then give sympathetic and useful feedback – they will get tremendous satisfaction from it (Harmer, 2007: 123). According to Richard (2003:214), there are three techniques in teaching speaking that make the students improve their ability to produce target language acquires many verbal nuances, improve their ability to work cooperatively in group situation, and effectively deal affective issues, those are storytelling, drama and role-play. Pellowski in Davis (2007:4) defines storytelling is the art or craft of narration of stories in verse and or prose, as performed or led by one person before a live audience, the stories narrated may be spoken, chunted or sung, with or without musical, pictorial, and / or other accompaniment, and may be learned from oral, printed, or mechanically from recorded sources, one of its purposes may be that of entertainment. Since storytelling can be part of an integral part of everyday life, it seems only natural that our students should have or would like to have opportunities to share their own experiences to their friends and classmates as well (Edwards and Willis, 2005:201). Stories are natural because people in society always have stories to be told, this is a good factor for the students to experience storytelling in their families because it will enrich the knowledge of stories. As stated by Anderson and Anderson (2003) that narrative text is a text that tells a story and, in doing so to entertain the audience. Anderson and Anderson (2003) also said that there are five generic structures in constructing a narrative text. They are orientation, complication, a sequence of events or evaluation, resolution, and coda. There are some language features of narrative stated on 2006 National Curriculum, it said that narrative focuses on the specific participants, it usually uses past tense, there are temporal conjunction, there are many action verb and direct and indirect sentences are often used. METHOD This research is qualitative. Mackey and Gass (2005:162) Briefly defined, that qualitative research can be taken to refer to research that is based on descriptive data that does not make (regular) use of statistical procedure. There were two subjects of the study. The first one was the English teacher of class X-I in MAN 2 kota Kediri. The second subject was the students of class X-I in MAN 2 kota Kediri. The class consisted of 24 students, there were 6 male students and 18 female students. There were three research instruments to obtain the data, the first is observation checklist, it was used to observe all the teacher’s and students’ activity during the class. Since this observation would be a non-participatory observation. The second was students’ speaking assessment task, to get the score of the students’ speaking ability, the researcher will analyze the students’ speaking task. The task itself is in audio-video form, that is why the students were asked to record their speaking task using video cameras. Furthermore, the recording would be analyzed to describe the students’ speaking ability. The third instrument was questionnaire, The type of the questionnaire is closed item questionnaire, as stated by Nunan (1992:143), a close item is one in which the range of possible responses is determined by the researcher. The data will be analyzed qualitatively in descriptive way, it means that the researcher would explain it through the use of words. Moreover, there would be three stages in analyzing the data. The first stage is selecting and identifying data, the second stage was displaying data, and the last stage was drawing conclusion. RESULT AND DISCUSSION The observation had been done in three meetings. In the first meeting, the teacher gave an example how to do storytelling. after that he asked some students to retell the story in front of the classroom, he also explained the generic structure of narrative text in the end of teaching and learning activity. At the second meeting, he asked all the students to practice the storytelling, then he gave correction and evaluation to the students’ performance. At the third meeting, the teacher explained the language features of narrative text. According to Davis (2007) the most important part is determining the story, the teacher here choose the existing story to tell, he prepared story very well. The teacher gave the example of the story orally at the beginning of the learning processes. He intended to be a model of a storyteller in front of the students. By giving an example of storytelling at the beginning, the teacher tried to encourage the students to express the feeling in speaking activity. That is why while he was telling the story he performed it in attractive ways by expressing in appropriate voice, gestures and facial expression. It is in line with the procedure of telling story by Davis (2007) that a storyteller has to consider three important factors, they are voice, expression, movement and posture. However the learning process mainly about speaking activity, the teacher had explained the gist and the characteristic of narrative text to the students. Thus the generic structure and the language feature of the text were elaborated from the spoken text they had been learning. This is in line with the next instruction of the teacher which asked the students to retell the storytelling contained those generic structure and language feature. Students’ speaking assessment task was in form of video recording of the students’ storytelling. The video recording showed the students’ speaking ability. There were four samples which represent four criteria of students’ ability. The student who got excellent mark comprehended the story very well. From the content of the story, she could tell the events in chronological order. She also told the orientation, complication and resolution accurately, it showed that she understood the generic structures of the text accurately. Almost of her sentences were well constructed, only there are few mistakes such as “it means the movie will start”. The student’ pronunciation was also clear and accurate. that is why the story was very understandable. Moreover on the recording, her performance was almost perfect, she could tell the story with showing appropriate mimic and expression. That is why this storytelling is excellent. The student who got good score comprehended the story well, it could be seen from its chronological order. Unfortunately, there were few mistakes in constructing of correct pieces of language, the mistake was in the use of past tense, she sometimes used present tense to tell the story, such as “They want to marry her, but the king have one solution”, also there were another mistake in constructing sentence as follows “Finally the Mountain God will be the winner and can marry the princess”. The pronunciation and fluency were fair because she often spoke with hesitation. The student who got average score has average ability in constructing sentences. From the content, its orientation and complication are quite good, but the resolution is not clearly understandable. In telling the story, this student also lack of gesture and facial expression, but his pronunciation is almost correct. The student who got poor score did not comprehend the story well, it could be seen from the orientation that difficult to be understood. The sentences that she made also difficult to be understood because almost all sentences contain mistake in constructing of correct piece of language. For example “the ten sun in sky other something”, there is no verb used in that sentence, that is why it is understandable. Then there were many mistakes in pronunciation, such as in the sentence “there were ten suns in sky”, the pronunciation of “were” should be /wÉœ:ʳ/, but her pronunciation is incorrect by pronounce it /weəʳ/. The word sky should be pronounced /skaɪ/, but she pronounced /skɪ/. In the sentence “many people were dead” the word dead should be pronounced /ded/, but she pronounced /dɪd/, those mistakes made different meaning of those sentences. Also in fluency, the student spoke with hesitation which disturbs the communication. Based on the scoring instrument of speaking task, there was one student got excellent score, the student who got excellent score was able to perform storytelling with almost no mistake in miming, understand the generic structure appropriately, speak without hesitation, no mistake in accuracy and pronunciation, and use a variety of vocabulary. Other 14 students got good score, the students who got good score have the ability to tell story with few mistakes in miming and generic structures, they speak with some hesitation with few mistakes in constructing correct piece of language, also they have clear pronunciation but made some errors in word choices. Other 8 students got average score. These students were able to tell the story with many mistakes in miming but few mistakes in generic structures, they speak with some hesitation and there are many mistakes in accuracy. The pronunciation is unclear, sometimes difficult to understand, they also use limited vocabulary. Only one student who got poor score, she has lack ability to show mimic and expression she also could not tell the generic structures clearly, she speaks with often hesitation and almost all sentences contain mistakes in accuracy, she also has frequent problem in pronunciation and uses only basic vocabulary. This is not surprisingly most of the students got very good score, it because they had been doing the exercise before they perform it, moreover the students did the storytelling in form of video recording which meant they did the storytelling freely outside of the classroom with less obstacle. The result of the questionnaire would describe the students’ response toward the teaching technique. The questions in the questionnaire were classified into six focuses. The first two questions showed that the students were interested to learn narrative text, but they were not so interested to learn speaking skill. The result showed that learning speaking skill was something uninterested for the students. That is why the teacher has to find out the creative learning activity to attract the students’ response to learn. The result of the next four questions that focused on classroom speaking activity showed that most of the students were interested in storytelling by the teacher in the classroom, but they were not so interested to actively participating in storytelling in the classroom. It showed that the students needed more feedback when they were having speaking activity in the classroom. It might be the students lack of confident to express storytelling which necessary good gesture and facial expression. The result of next three questions showed that all the students tend to like more familiar story in their life. Obviously, telling familiar stories from their own culture is easier than others. The teacher at that time told the story from abroad, it might make the students get difficulties in comprehending the story. The result of the next five questions showed that most of the students enjoyed having storytelling activities. The teacher kept on encouraging the students to speak by giving opportunity to each student to practice storytelling. The result of the next three questions showed that the students were comfortable with the teacher’s role in the classroom,. As in the speaking classroom, the teacher always supports the students by giving enjoyable activity for speaking. The last three questions showed that the students expected they would be able to enhance their ability in speaking by storytelling. On the overall activity, the students enjoyed storytelling activity to enable their narrative speaking. CONCLUSION Teaching speaking of narrative text through storytelling is initiated by selecting what story to tell to the students. Then the teacher has to be a role model how to be a good storyteller. The teacher also explained the generic structure of narrative story by having discussion with the students. By giving example how to perform the storytelling, in the whilst activity, the students were expected to be able to perform it without any obstacle. To get the students’ understanding of the language feature of narrative text, the teacher also explained the language feature which is used in the story in the post activity. From the result of students’ speaking assessment task, it can be concluded that one of the students is excellent in their storytelling, most of them are good in their storytelling and some of them are average in their storytelling. From the discussion on the students’ response, it can be concluded that the students were interested with the story performed by the teacher, but they tend to like the story which is familiar in their daily life. They also enjoyed the storytelling activities in the classroom with the role of the teacher who a support them, they also expected that storytelling would be able to enhance their ability in speaking. For overall conclusion, it can be concluded that the students enjoyed storytelling to enable their narrative speaking. REFERENCES Anderson, M & Anderson, K. 2003. Text Types in English 2. Australia: Macmillan Education Australia PTY LTD. Brown, G & Yule, G. 1989. Teaching the Spoken Language: An Approach based on The Analysis of Conversational English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davies, Alison. 2007. Storytelling in the Classroom: Enhancing Oral Traditional Skills for Teachers and Pupils. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. Depdiknas. 2006. Kurikulum 2006: Standar Kompetensi Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah Atas dan Madrasah Aliyah. Jakarta: Depdiknas. Edwards, C. & Willis, J. 2005. Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Harmer, Jeremy. 2007. The Practice of English Language Teaching Fourth Edition. Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited. Mackey, Allison & Gass, S.M. 2005. Second Language Research. Methodology and Design. New Jersey: Lawrence Elbraum Associates Inc. Nunan, David. 1989. Designing Task for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nunan, David. 1992. Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Richards, J.C. & Renandya, W.A. 2002, Methodology in Language Teaching. An Anthology of Current Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press. Thornbury, Scott. 2005. How to Teach Speaking. Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited.
The Effectiveness of Using Picture Series as Media to Teach Writing Procedure Text for Tenth Graders of SMA NegeriBandarkedungmulyoJombang
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The Effectiveness of Using Picture Series as Media to Teach Writing Procedure Text for Tenth Graders of SMA NegeriBandarkedungmulyoJombang Mochammad Riyan English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Mochammadriyan347@gmail.com Fauris Zuhri, S.Pd., M.Hum. English Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Abstract Some people may find difficulties in writing something or express their ideas. They have a lot of ideas in their mind, but they cannot decide what they want to write. When the first problem solved, other problem appear that they do not know how to write correctly. Those difficulties faced by students, too and make them frustated and not confident in writing. The teacher has a job to give some stimulus and let the students’ imagination free by not forcing the students directly to write and not giving them the same boring strategy all the time. The teacher can use Picture Series. The use of picture series can help the students to be more interested in the material and it is makes students easier to write down their own concept. The research is an experimental research and the objective of this study To find out whether there is significant effect between the students who have been taught writing using picture series and students who have not. The subject of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri BandarkedungmulyoJombang which consisted of 2 classes, X IPS 1 (28 students) and X IPS 2 (30 students). The research instrument, the researcher uses test as the research instrument. The researcher find that picture series was easy to use so they could write with picture series easily. Writing procedure through picture series brought the students to new kind of situation. It would help both the teacher and students to revise the students’ writing and made writing more fun than the way it used to be. Keywords: Picture series, writing, procedure text. Abstrak Beberapa orang mungkinmengalamikesulitandalammenulissesuatuataumengekspresikan ide-ide mereka. Merekamemilikibanyak ide dipikiranmereka, tetapimerekatidakdapatmemutuskanapa yang akanmerekatulis. Ketikamasalahpertamaterpecahkan, masalah yang lain munculbahwamerekatidaktahubagaimanacaramenulisdenganbenar. Kesulitan-kesulitanitudihadapijugaolehmurid-muriddanmembuatmerekafrustasidantidakpercayadiridalammenulis. Seorang guru mempunyaitugasuntukmemberikanbeberapa stimulus danmembiarkan para muridbebasuntukberimajinasidengantidakmemaksamerekauntukmenulissecaralangsungdantidakmemberikanmerekastrategi yang membosankansetiapsaat. Seorang guru dapatmenggunakanpicture series. Penggunaanpicture series dapatmembantumurid-muriduntuklebihtertarikdenganpelajarandanpicture seriesmembuatmurid-muridlebihmudahuntukmenulis ide merekasendiri. Penelitianinimerupakanpenelitianeksperimentaldantujuandaripenelitiainiadalahuntukmenemukanapakahadaperbedaan yang signifikanantaramurid-murid yang menulisdenganmenggunakanpicture seriesdanmurid-murid yang yangmenulistanpamenggunakanpicture series. Subjekdaripenelitianiniadalahmurid-muridkelas 10 SMA NegeriBandarkedungmulyoJombang yang terdiridari 2 kelas, X IPS 1 (28 murid) dan X IPS 2 (30 murid). Penelitimenggunakan test sebagaiinstrumenpenelitian. Penelitimenemukanbahwapicture series mudahuntukdigunakanjadimerekadapatmenulisdenganmudahmenggunakanpicture series. Menulisprosedurteksmelaluipicture series membawamurid-muridkepadasituasi yang baru. Ituakanmembantu guru danjugamuriduntukmerevisitulisanmurid-muriddanmembuatkegiatanmenulislebihmenyenangkandaripadaseharusnya. Kata kunci: picture series, menulis, prosedurteks. INTRODUCTION English has four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) that every skill is related to each other. Four of the skills should be mastered by the students to increase their ability in English learning. Writing has important role for students to learn English. Writing involves language components such as grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Based on Braine and Claire May (1991:60) state “writing clear sentence requires you to learn the rules of English grammar and mechanics such as the correct use of verbs and pronouns, as well as commas and other marks of punctuation”. Myles (2002:15) states that writing is an English skill which needs an effort and much practice in composing, developing, and analyzing ideas. Writing is considered as a complicated skill for the students and the teachers. Chastian (1988:221) stated that writing and speaking are difficult skills to acquire because the students must have a more complete control of the elements of language, such as vocabulary, sentence, or grammar. It means that the students have to combine the elements of writing including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanic when they want to write. In education world, writing is an important thing for students, Hyland (2003:20) states that the important reason for teaching writing for students is because writing helps students to learn. Fellag (2004:10) states that writing consist of steps that you may need to repeat as you write are getting ideas, organizing your ideas, writing your first draft, revising to improve content and organization, and editing for language errors. There are many kinds of texts that can be used by students as their writing materials. One of them is procedure text. Procedure text is a text that is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps. In teaching learning activity, writing procedure text should be interesting for student but in fact, the students just feel bored with the lesson. This kind of situation will be happened when the teacher cannot explain the materials in right ways. The teacher cannot show media related to the topic. To solve these problems, the teachers must realize that they need to use appropriate teaching media to improve students’ writing scores. There are many kinds of media that can be used such as picture, maps, real things, dialogue and tables present the materials (Bryne, 1991:17). One of the effective ways to help the students in learn how to write procedure text is using picture series. Picture series are the picture that tell a story in a sequence on a one chart (Finocchiaro, 1974:100). In other side, picture series can help the students to create or produce a procedure text by showing some pictures that related with the topic. It can develop their imagination and open their mind about how to make or produce something. Students can construct their knowledge during learning procedure text easily by using media. One of the media is picture series which draws a story. Picture series is several or sequence events, actions or steps that come in photographic representation of people, places, and things and happened one after the other. This medium fulfills the principles of using media issued by Nyoman S. Degeng (2001). Media which can be used to make the students learn more easily and the teacher teaches easily is the main part of the learning process. The media must be used in integrated way in teaching and learning and not only as ice breaker of teaching and learning. In addition, Wright (1997) stated that picture series are pictures, which show some action or event in chronological order. According to him, picture series can be used to depict a process how to make something. Hammer (2004) adds that pictures are often used to present situation to help the students work with grammar and vocabulary. To understand the way of the picture series, the students need to appreciate it in abstract way. In the same way, when they express their ideas to construct the text in a good coherence as well as unity, they have to think it in abstract way too. Both of them will be easier for them in learning process if the teacher can use picture series. It can not only help the students to get ideas more realistic in understanding the procedure text but also in constructing ideas to create it. Wright (1997) states that picture can play a key role in motivating students, conceptualizing the language they want to use and giving them a reference. Based on those explanations above, this research has been set to find out whether there is significant effect between the students who are taught by using picture series and those who are taught without picture series. METHOD This research is experimental research to find out whether there is difference between the students writing score which are taught using picture series and which are taught without picture series. The design employs two groups, experimental and control groups. This research will be held in two weeks, four meetings for both groups. Both of group will be given pre-test and post-test. The pre-test is given at the beginning of the study in order to find out the students ability in composing procedure text. Then, the treatment will be given for experimental group only. In the last meeting, both groups will be given a post-test to find out the difference between the two groups as the effect of the treatment. The subject of this research is the first year’s students of SMA NegeriBandarkedungmulyoJombang. The researcher will choose two classes as experimental and control group. Two classes are taken randomly from the whole classes in SMA NegeriBandarkedungmulyoJombang; those two classes are X IPS 1 and X IPS 2. X IPS 1 is taken as a control group of the study and X IPS 2 is taken as an experimental group of the study. In this research, the researcher using pre-test and post-test as the instrument. The test is in the form of writing test of procedure text. The test is conducted before the treatment as a pre-test and after the treatment as a post-test. The teacher asks the students to make a procedure text. The researcher collected the data by pre-test and post-test. Pre-test for control group (X IPS 1) was conducted on December 11th 2013 and pre-test for experimental group (X IPS 2) was conducted on December 12th 2013. Before the test was given to the students, it was tried out in different school but in same level. When the test was considered to be valid, it is used as pre-test and post-test for both groups. The second step was treatment for experimental group only on December 16th 2013. On the other hand, the control group will be taught, in the old way without using picture series and it was applied on December 14th 2013. Finally, the post-test for experimental group was conducted on December 18th 2013 and post-test for control group was conducted on December 17th 2013. In this case, the test in pre-test and post-test are the same. The next step is compute the result by using t-test formula to calculate the t-value of pre-test and post-test of both experimental and control groups. The t-test was used to know whether there was a significant difference between experimental and control group, the used of t-table was as a comparison if the result of the t-test was higher it means that there was significant difference between two groups meanwhile if the t-test was lower than the result of the t-table means that there was no significant difference between two groups. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION This experimental research was conducted to find out whether there is a significance difference between the students’ who are taught procedure text by using Picture Series and those who are taught procedure text without Picture Series. There were two steps to obtain the data, first the researcher used pre-test to both experimental and control groups this was conducted in order to know the students’ writing ability before given treatments. The last step was post-test this was conducted to both experimental and control groups in order to know if there is any significance difference in students’ writing ability after given treatments. There were some procedures to calculate the data between pre-test and post-test, the procedures were same between those two groups. First procedure was finding the mean, second procedure was finding the standard deviations, third procedure was finding standard error of difference, and the last procedure was calculate t-value by using t-test formula. The researcher conducted the pre-test in order to know the students’ writing ability before given treatments. the score and mean of control group was higher than experimental group. The score of control group was 1855 and the mean was 66.25 while the score of experimental group was 1915 and the mean was 63.83. However, that indicated that those two groups had equal ability in writing procedure text before the treatment was given in the other word they were not siqnificantly different in writing ability. After the pre-test was conducted to both groups, the researcher applied the Picture Series as media to teach writing procedure text for experimental group, while the control group got treatments without using Picture Series. Post-test was administered after the researcher had done the treatments; the test was same as in pre-test with the same topic. The score and mean of experimental group was higher than control group. The score of experimental group was 2385 and control group was 2055. It was definitely clear that the mean of experimental group also higher than control group, the mean of experimental group was 79.5 and control group was 73.39. It was clearly seen that there was an improvement in students’ writing ability of experimental group, it was happened because the experimental group had been given the treatments by using Picture Series. The next step is calculating the standard deviation of both groups. The standard deviation of control group was higher than experimental group. The standard deviation of control group was 7.59 and experimental group was 5.96. In this step the researcher could not conclude whether there is significant difference or not because this was not final calculation. Next step calculated standard error of the difference of both experimental and control group. The calculation of standard error of the difference between experimental and control group was gained from the result of standard deviations of both experimental and control group and the result presented that the standard error of the difference between experimental and control group was 1.82. As the final calculation, then the researcher calculated the t-value by using t-test formula The researcher used t-test formula to calculate the t-value of pre-test and post-test of both experimental and control groups. The t-test was used to know whether there was a significant difference between experimental and control group, the used of t-table was as a comparison if the result of the t-test was higher it means that there was significant difference between two groups meanwhile if the t-test was lower than the result of the t-table means that there was no significant difference between two groups. So the result of the t-test should be higher than t-table on the level of significance of 0.05 or 5% with the degree of freedom 40. The result of the t-value of post-test of both experimental and control groups was 3.36 then it was compared with the t-table on the level of significance of 0.05 or 5% with the degree of freedom 40 was 2.021. From the result above the t-value of post-test of both experimental and control groups was higher than t-table, it can be concluded that there was a significant difference between experimental and control group. The data above showed that picture series give significant effect in experimental group scores, writing procedure text through picture series could improve students’ writing procedure text ability. There were some factors that improve students’ writing ability who were taught by using picture series. First, picture series was easy to use so they could write with picture series easily, as stated by Betty (1994) that a student with a creative imagination will often learn a new language easily and enjoyable trough the use of picture while he finds it difficult to learn just from a textbook or dictionary. Second, writing procedure through picture series brought the students to new kind of situation. It would help both the teacher and students to revise the students’ writing and made writing more fun than the way it used to be, it would help the students to get ideas more realistic in understanding the procedure text and in constructing ideas to create it. That fact is similar to Betty (1994) observation that pictures enrich the classroom by bringing the topics from outside world, which are made real and immediate by the pictures. CONCLUSION The result of this study showed that there is a significant difference between the students who have been taught procedure text by using picture series and those who have not been taught by using picture series. The alternative hypothesis which said that there is a significant difference between the students who have been taught using picture series and those who have not been taught by using picture series, is acceptable. Next, there were some factors that improve student's writing ability who were taught by using picture series. First, picture series was easy to use so they could write with picture series easily. Second, writing procedure through picture series brought the students to new kind of situation. It would help both the teacher and students to revise the students’ writing and made writing more fun than the way it used to be. REFERENCES Bowen, Betty Morgan. 1995. Look Here! Visual Aids in Language Teaching. London: Modern English Publication. Brown, H. D. (2007). 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AN ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING MADE BY THE TENTH GRADERS OF ACCELERATION CLASS AT SMA NEGERI 1 SIDOARJO Putri Ulul Apriliyani English Departement, Languages and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya putritik@gmail.com Himmawan Adi Nugroho, S.Pd., M.Pd English Departement, Languages and Arts Faculty, State University of Surabaya himmawan_95@yahoo.co.id Abstrak Pemerintah menetapkan Bahasa Inggris sebagai salah satu mata pelajaran yang harus diterapkan disetiap level pendidikan. Hal ini dikarenakan Bahasa Inggris dipakai sebagai foreign language oleh negara kita. Untuk menguasai Bahsa Inggris sebagai foreign language ini, para siswa diharapkan menguasai keempat komponen dasar yang dimiliki oleh Bahasa Inggris. Salah satu kemampuan dasar tersebut adalah menulis. Menulis bisa membuat siswa menuangkan ide-ide yang mereka miliki agar dapat diketahui oleh orang lain dalam bentuk tulisan (Hyland,2002). Untuk membantu para guru untuk mengajar pelajaran menulis dalam Bahasa Inggris dapat digunakan jenis teks sebagai alat penunjang. Salah satu jenis teks yang dominan diajarkan di SMA adalah Narrative. Jadi, para siswa dituntut untuk bisa menguasai teks ini secara lisan dan tulisan. Secara tulisan, para siswa dituntut untuk dapat menulis teks narrative mereka sendiri berdasarkan generic structure dan language features dari teks tersebut. Berkaitan dengan hal itu, sebuah penelitian kualitatif deskriptif digunakan untuk menganalisis teks narrative yang telah ditulis oleh siswa. Siswa kelas X-Akselerasi dibagi menjadi tiga grup yang berbeda berdsarkan kemampuan mereka dalam menguasai pelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Instrumen penelitian yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini ada tiga jenis yaitu; checklist, rubrik penilaian dan juga peneliti. Selain itu, semua teks narrative yang ditulis oleh siswa dikumpulkan untuk dinilai dan dianalisis oleh peneliti. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa semua siswa dapat menuliskan teks narrative mereka sendiri berdsarkan generic structure dan language features teks tersebut. Tapi, ada beberapa siswa yang masih membuat kesalahan pada saat menuliskan generic structure dan language features dari teks mereka. Kesalahan yang paling banyak mereke buat adalah menggunakan past tense sebagai dominan tense didalam narrative text. Pada akhirnya, para guru disarankan untuk memberi penjelasan yang jelas kepada para siswa tentang tata cara menulis teks narrative yang baik dan benar. Selain itu, para guru sebaiknya juga harus menjelaskan penggunaan past tense sebagai tenses yang dominan dipakai didalam teks narrative sebelum mereka memberi tugas kepada siswa untuk menuliskan teks narrative mereka sendiri. Karena sebagian besar kesalahan siswa terletak pada penggunaan past tense ini. Kata Kunci: narrative text, generic structure, language features Abstract Since English is used as foreign language in our country, it becomes important subject in every education level. Four basics skills is needed to help the students learning English as their foreign language. One of the important skill is writing. Writing can make the students take out their mind and put it in the other form that people can read and consider (Hyland, 2002). Therefore, text type is appropiate tools for the teachers to teach writing for the students. Narrative is one of the text type that mostly taught in High School. It makes the students have to master this text both in written and spoken form. In written form, the students must be able to compose their narrative text correctly based on its generic structure and language features. To deal with, a descriptive qualitative design is used to analyze the students’ narrative composition that they wrote as their writing assignment. The students in X-Acceleration class divided into three groups based on their ability in mastering English and nine students are taken as representatives. This study uses checklist, assessment scoring rubric, and the researcher as the research instruments. Moreover, all of the students’ original narrative compositions are collected to be analized and scored. The result shows that all of the samples are able to write their narrative composition completely in the term of generic structure and language features. But, some students still made some errors when applied generic structure and language features of narrative text. The errors that mostly appeared in the students’ narrative composition is the use of past tense as dominant tense in this text. At the end, it suggests that the teacher should give a clear explanation and example for the students about how to compose a good narrative text is. Moreover, since most of the students made error when applied past tense in their writing, it is better for the teachers to give brief and clear explanation about it before they ask the students to write narrative text theirselves. Keywords: narrative text, generic structure, language features INTRODUCTION Language is one most important thing which can support our communication in our life. It is supported by (Oxford Learner's Pocket Dictionary, 2008) that language is a system of sounds, words used by humans to communicate thoughts and feelings. This definition means that every people can use language to express everything that they feel, such; their thought, emotion, ideas, and etc. Expressing all of those feelings, people can use language in two ways, spoken and written. Moreover, both of this way can be very useful device for humans to communicate with others. Nowdays, English becomes an International language which is used by all of the country as their second language or their foreign language. Since our country uses English as ours Foreign language, the goverment has decided to include English as one of important subject in every education level. It purposes that all of students in our country can learn English from young age, in order to make them able to communicate using English in the spoken and written form. In the teaching learning of English, there are four basics skills that student must have. They are; listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Each skill can not be separated because they are main skills to master English as our foreign language. All of those four skills are important elements which can develop the students’ ability to communicate using English both in spoken and written. (Depdiknas, 2006) is also stated that the purpose of taught English subject at school is making the students able to build their communicative competence in spoken and written form. From those statement we can conclude that the goverment expects the students to be able to use English fluently, accurately, and acceptably both in spoken and written form. In addition, we can also conclude that writing is one of important communicative competence that have to be learned by all of the students. Writing is one of important skill in learning English as foreign language. We can share everything that we want freely in written form, it is supported by (Hyland, 2002) that writing can make the students take out their ideas in their mind and put it into others form that other people can read and consider it. It means that every person can share their idea and can communicate with others in the written form. However, communicating through writing is considered more difficult to use than spoken form. As stated by (Hadfield & Hadfield, 1990), for teacher of foreign language, writing lesson has a difficulty, and this also true for their students. For example in speaking, a speaker can explain and repeat more in order to make the receiver know what they mean. Moreover, it is supported by their gestures, intonations, or facial expressions. While in writing, the writer must be able to make their writing understandable without explaining and repeating it directly to the readers. In the same case, many students get some difficulties in mastering writing skill. It comes when they want to start their writing. The obstacles can appear from theirselves and from the environment. The first difficulty appears when the students don’t know what should they write in their written assignment because they have written about the topic many times. For instance, in the 8th and 9th grade of Junior High School the students have been taught narrative text, moreover they have to be able to write that text theirselves. When they asked by the teacher to write a narrative text, they were attending to write the topic as same as before because they were reluctant to write it with the new topic. It makes the students do not have anything left to write about in their narrative text writing assignment. Not only that, the other difficulty is also come when the students know what they are going to write, but they can’t organize it well. That happens because the students have lack in remembering the important writing elements, such as; vocabulary, transition signals, words connectors, and etc. which are very useful to help them in organizing written assignment. Facing that problems above, the sudent should be able to develop their writing skill by practicing it in particular time. (Patel & Jain, 2008) said that writing is skill that should be taught through practice. In the other hands, writing should be learned regularly in order to make the students’ skills in writing increase. There are several phases that should be followed by students to start their writing; first, the students should know and understand about grammatical features that is used in each sentence; second the students should be able to write their written assignment through English effectively; and the student should be able to use correctly conversations in peculiary language. Furthermore, the teacher can help the students to develop all of those phases above by using text type to teach writing skill. There are lots of text type that are taught in Senior High School, namely; recount, review, descriptive, narrative, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, news item, explanation, narrative, procedure, anecdote, report, and discussion (Depdiknas, 2006). All of those text has different function, generic structure, and language features. From all types of the texts above, narrative is the text which is dominantly and frequently thought to the junior high schools and senior high schools students. Narrative text is a composition which tells about story. It can be factual and non-factual narrative text. Factual narrative text is kind of narrative which is related to the real story, for instance; someone experience, adventure, and historical event. While, non-factual narrative text is kind of story which is not real happen in our lives. For instance; myth, fairytale, legend, and fable. The purpose of this text is entertaining the readers. Moreover, we can use this kind of text when we want to tell about something interesting that happened or when we want to write some events of the day in the privacy in our diary. According to (Parera, 1993) the most narrative text have characteristic to tell a story of an event or events in chronological order in which they occured in time. The generic structure of narrative text consists of Orientation, Complication, Resolution, and Coda (Depdiknas, 2006). Coda is optional, sometimes it exists at the end of the story but sometimes it does not. According to (Nunan, 1991) the generic structure of narrative text consists of Orientation, Complication, and Resolution. Orientation is considered as the beginning of the story. This beginning is usually introduces the main character(s), time, and places (Depdiknas, 2006). It means that orientation generally gives the answer of where the action is located, who is (are) involved, and when the story happened. After that the story is going on by series of events which involve the main character(s) to some sort of problems. It called complication. The events in complication make the story more attractive. Finally, in the end of the story the reader will find resolution of the problem. The resolution that provided in the stoy can be better or worse. Sometimes coda exists after the resolution. It is a change that happened to the character and the leson that can be taken from the story or sometimes we called it as moral value from the story. Moreover, (Derewianka, 1990) described that narrative has some components of language features, those are; choose the descriptive language to enhance and develop the story by creating images in the readers’ mind, and the last participant can be written in the first person (I, we) or third person (he, she, they). It also mentioned in detail that narrative’s languag features are consist of the use of specific participants; mainly uses action verbs; use temporal conjunction and temporal circumstances; use past tense as dominant tense; and use relational and mental process. To deal with, the objectives of this study are describing the tenth graders narrative text in terms of its generic structure and language features. METHODOLOGY Since the researcher wants to analyze and describe the students’ narrative text writing, a descriptive qualitative research was conducted in this study. According to (Ary, Jacobs, & Sorensen, 2010) descriptive research involves describing and interpreting the nature and incidence as it exists at the time of study. Furthermore, in other pages they also said that descriptive research studies are designed to obtain information concerning the current phenomena. Simply, we can say that descriptive qualitative research is a research that describe the natural phenomena. In line with that statement, the researcher wanted to describe and observe the real condition that she faced in the field. She joined the teaching learning process on the day when the teacher gave writing assignment for the students. Because it helped the researcher to know the originality of students’ narrative text composition. The subject of this study were the tenth graders of acceleration class at SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo. This class was choosen because all of the students who entered in this class had high qualification than others. The researcher devided all of the students in this class into three different group based on their ability in mastering English; first contains students who have high ability in mastering English, second contains three students who have average ability in mastering English, and third contains students who have low ability in mastering English. But then, the researcher just took nine students’ narrative text as representatives to be analized. All of these representatives were taken from each group. The data in this study were generic structure and language features that used by the students in their narrative text. Therefore, the original students’ narrative text were collected by the researcher as source of data. The students’ narrative text was written in the same topic. The topic is about Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih. This study used three kinds of research intruments. First, the researcher herself. The researcher was the key of instrument in descriptive qualitative research because she had to analyze and describe all of the students’ narrative text. The second instrument was checklist. This checklist used to know how the teaching learning process went in the day that teacher gave the assignment for the students. The checklist included three main indicators, namely; teachers’ action, students’ response, and the materials given. The last instrument was assessment scoring rubric for generic structure and language features. Both of these rubrics was very useful for the researcher as a guideline to analyze the students’ narrative text. Furthermore, the researcher analized all of data she got based on Creswell theory at (Ary, et al., 2010). There were three steps to analyze the data in descriptive qualitative research, such as; (1) Organizing the data or data managing; (2) coding or classifiying; and (3) intrepetating or representing the data. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS Based on the findings, all of the students in that three groups were able to write their narrative text completely in the term of generic structure. And they could write the orientation, then complication, and ended by resolution. But, the researcher found some errors that students did in their writing. The errors came from each part of generic structure which wrote by the students. Some of them made their errors in the orientation part, complication part, and resolution part. In this case, the first group students were included in the excellent category by the researcher because she did not find some errors in the students’ writing. They composed their narrative text completely without forgetting one component of its generic structure. They also wrote it correctly as its criteria in the generic structure rubric. First, the orientation part contains time and place where the story happened, characters inside, and the situation there. Second, the complication part explain about the series of events and climax of the story which shoud be written chronologically. Then, the resolution should be solved all of the problems that faced by the main characters in sequence and comprehensible. For instance, it can be seen from student 2’s narrative text writing. Student 2 could compose a very good story and organized it well. In her narrative text, student 2 was success write the orientation part as well by stating the time and the place related to the story, mentioned the characters inside the story, and gave a clear situation to draw how the story begins. Then, it continued by giving series of events which was written chronologically until met its climax. Then, after student 2 wrote out all of the problems and the climax of the story, she ended the story by writing the solution to solve the problems in the resolution part. In short, student 2 was able to applied narrative’s generic structure very well without missing one criteria of it. Close to the first group students, the three students in the second group were also able to implement narrative’s generic structure. They wrote the story start from the orientation, complication, and resolution. But, they could not composed each of the generic structure well. They missed some of criteria that should be in that part. For instance, two of the students in this group were not able to write the complication part correctly. Sometimes, they wrote it unchronologically, missed many events, and did not write the complication. Furthermore, there was a student in this group who wrote the climax of the story in the resolution part. It can be seen in the student 1’ resolution. He wrote the climax there to begin the resolution and gave the solution of the climax in this part too. It made the resolution part of his story was not suitable with the criteria in generic structure’s rubric. Another students also did not compose their orientation part completely. They did not include one criteria which should be stated in this part. Therefore, all of the students in this group were included in the very good category in implementing narrative’s generic structure. Since in the third group were consist of low level students in mastering English, the result of their narrative writing was also different from the first and second group before. Altough all of the students in this group could compose their narrative text based on its generic structure, the researcher still found many serious errors there. For instance, student 2 wrote a very simple orientation. He just wrote the time when the story happened and the characters which appeared there. This student was also missed some events which related to the climax in the complication part. In addition, the resolution part of his story was not composed well. He didn’t write the resolution part in sequence and directly gave the ending of the story. It makes the researcher included all of the students in this group into good category. From the result, the researcher found that all of the students in the third group were able to implement all of narrative’s generic structure in their text. But, some of them made errors when applying it. The errors mostly appeared when the students tried to write their narrative text using past tense as dominant tense there. Furthermore, the findings stated that all of students in the first group were able in applying five points of narrative’s language features correctly. Those five points were specific nouns as pronoun, time connectives, the use of action verb in the past form, the use of thinking verbs, and the use of past tense. Furthermore, it showed that student 2 in this group was able to use past tense perfectly as dominant tense in her narrative text. She was also able in using time connectives, action verbs in past tense, thinking verbs, and the pronoun to state the specific participant in the story. Furthermore, there were no spelling error, punctuation, capitalization, and other errors which were appeared in this group. It makes the researcher included all of the students into excellent category in the terms of language features. Almost same with the first group, the three students in the second group were also able in applying narrative’s language features in their writing. But, they still made error when used past tense in their narrative text. Moreover, all of them also made some errors in spelling, punctuation, and especially in capitalization. Generally, their narrative text was good, the errors happened because they needed more concentration in apllying narrative’s language features. The researcher gives some excuses to the students since it just a simple error and did not have serious impact to the students’ writing. This fact was different from the students in the third group. Three students who were belonging in this group faced many problems. The problems were coming from the use of past tense, action verbs, and the thinking verbs in their narrative writing. For instance, one of student in this group made a serious error by using present tense and present action verbs in her narrative text. She often translated Indonesia directly into English without obeying the sentence structure. It showed that she was not able to write a simple correct or complex past and present tense. Moreover, the errors of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization were also appeared frequently in students’ narrative text in this group. Their sentence structures were different between what was in their mind and their writing. So, it makes the researcher little bit confused to get the point in their narrative text. Fortunately, all of the students in this group were able in using pronoun and time connectives in their narrative text properly. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusions From the findings, it was found that the tenth graders especially acceleration class of SMA Negeri 1 Sidoarjo have organized all of the narrative text components in their writing assignment. They were able to implement both of generic structure and language features of narrative text properly. At the generic structure stage, all of students in the three groups were able to write their narrative text based on its generic structure. They started their story from the orientation, continued with complication, and ended by resolution. But, all of those three groups were included in different category by the researcher. First, the students who belongsgs to the first group were able to apply all of narrative’s generic structure with correct criteria. So, it makes the researcher included all of them into excellent category. Second, the researcher included the second group into very good category. Because they made small error when applied narrative’s generic structure. The error happened when the students in this group did not include one of the criteria that should be stated in each part of generic structure. Then for the last group, the researcher included all of the students there into good category. Because all of the students there made serious error when applying each part of narrative’s generic structure. They did not include some of criteria which were should be stated in the generic structure’s part. At the same time, most of students in these three groups were able to apply all of the language features of narrative text. They could use past tense as the dominant tense there, action verbs in the past form, mental or thinking verbs, time connectives and mentioned the specific nouns as pronoun. But, some of them were not able to apply it well. They tended to make error when using past tense as the main tense in this text. Moreover, some students were still difficult to express their ideas using the right sentence structure specially in the use of simple past tense. It made their sentence difficult to understand by the readers. As a result, the reader would not get the point of the story. In line with that, there was one error that almost all of the students did. The errors were forgetting to use capital letter in the first word of every sentence and did not use the punctuation correctly. 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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDEPENDENT READING ON MINI STORIES IN TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDEPENDENT READING ON MINI STORIES IN TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Agita Putri Aisyiah English Education Program, Faculty of Language and Arts, Surabaya State University Email: ag1t.ndutz@gmail.com Him’mawan Adi Nugroho, S.Pd., M.Pd. English Education Program, Faculty of Language and Arts, Surabaya State University Email: himmawan_95@yahoo.com Abstrak Sejak Bahasa Inggris menjadi Bahasa Internasional yang digunakan untuk berkomunikasi, pemerintah Indonesia memasukkan Bahasa Inggris menjadi mata pelajaran wajib yang harus dikuasai oleh siswa SMA. Oleh karena itu, siswa harus menguasai keterampilan dasar yang tidak hanya diucapkan tetapi juga ditulis sebagai teks meliputi mendengar, berbicara, membaca dan menulis. Dari keterampilan tersebut, menulis adalah salah satu keterampilan yang paling sulit karena siswa mengumpulkan informasi sebanyak mungkin sebagai sumber dan mengatur pikiran di atas kertas. Itulah mengapa menulis selalu menggabungkan membaca untuk mendapatkan ide-ide saat mulai menulis. Ide-ide itu sendiri didapat dari apa yang telah dibaca. Krashen di Bray (2003) menyatakan bahwa siswa yang membaca terus-menerus dapat memperoleh kemampuan menulis. Oleh karena itu dengan menggunakan Independent Reading pada cerita-cerita mini, siswa dapat berlatih menulis dan meningkatkan nilai tulisan mereka terutama yang berupa narasi. Djuharie (2008:41) menyatakan bahwa teks narasi adalah semacam cerita yang bertujuan untuk menghibur pembaca. Cerita tersebut dapat berupa cerita fiksi dan non - fiksi seperti cerita mini. Cerita-cerita mini itu sendiri berbicara tentang cerita rakyat. Dalam pengajaran menulis narasi dengan menggunakan strategi ini, guru memberikan enam langkah yang harus dilakukan oleh siswa setelah mereka menerapkan membaca independen. Ada tiga puluh lima siswa kelas XI di kelas XI - A5 di SMAN 22 Surabaya yang menjadi subjek dalam penelitian kualitatif ini yang menggambarkan pelaksanaan membaca independen cerita mini untuk mengajarkan keterampilan menulis teks naratif. Mereka dibagi menjadi tiga kategori; baik, cukup, dan buruk untuk mengetahui kemampuan siswa dalam menulis ulang. Data dari penelitian ini adalah dalam bentuk kata-kata, frase dan kalimat. Kemudian instrumen yang digunakan untuk mendapatkan data adalah lembar observasi dan penilaian menulis komposisi menggunakan rubrik. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, guru meminta siswa untuk membaca cerita di luar kelas sebagai pekerjaan rumah. Kemudian, guru melakukan konferensi, mengulas pemahaman siswa tentang teks narasi, dan menulis ulang di kelas. Dalam melaksanakan membaca independen pada cerita mini, siswa antusias melakukan pembacaan independen di luar kelas, dan ditemukan bahwa sebagian besar dari mereka dikategorikan ke dalam tingkat yang baik dan ada beberapa dari mereka masih dikategorikan ke dalam tingkat rendah. Kemampuan menulis mereka masih dalam kriteria rata-rata. Hal ini ditunjukkan berdasarkan komposisi mereka yang telah dianalisis menggunakan ESL Komposisi Profil rubrik . Akhirnya siswa menikmati membaca cerita Mini di luar kelas, mendapat kesempatan untuk membaca banyak tentang teks naratif, membangun kebiasaan membaca, dan mengorganisir komposisi yang baik dengan menggunakan kata-kata sendiri setelah membaca cerita sebagai praktek menulis mereka. Disarankan kepada guru harus memilih cerita Mini yang menarik yang masih berkaitan dengan tujuan pembelajaran sebagai bahan bacaan, guru harus memberikan siswa komentar yang baik untuk mendorong mereka untuk membaca lebih lanjut dan menggabungkan strategi membaca dengan keterampilan lain selain menulis. Selain itu, disarankan bagi peneliti lain yang bisa dilakukan dalam tingkat yang berbeda dari mahasiswa dan dikombinasikan dengan teknik atau permainan lain atau kegiatan yang menarik. Kata Kunci: pengajaran keterampilan menulis, naratif, membaca independen, cerita mini Abstract Since English becomes an International language which is used to communicate, Indonesian government include English into a compulsory subjects which has to be mastered by senior high school students. Therefore the students have to master basic skills not only spoken but also written texts as listening, speaking, reading and writing. From those skills, writing is one of the most difficult skills because the writer gathers information as much as possible as sources and organizes the thought on their paper. That’s why writing always combines reading to get ideas to start writing. The ideas itself were got from what have already read. Krashen in Bray (2003) stated that the students who read continuously can gain in writing ability. Therefore by using Independent Reading on mini stories, the students can practice writing and increase their writing score especially narrative. Djuharie (2008:41) stated that narrative text is a kind of stories which purposes to entertain readers. It can be fictional and non-fictional story such as mini stories. The mini stories itself are talking about folktales. In teaching writing narrative using this strategy, the teacher gives six steps that should be done by the students after they implement independent reading. There are thirty-five eleventh grade students in XI-A5 class in SMAN 22 Surabaya were the subject in this qualitative research which described the implementation of Independent Reading on mini stories to teach writing narrative texts. They were divided into three categorized; good, fair, and poor to know the students’ ability in rewriting. The data of this study is in the form of words, phrases and sentences. Then the instruments used to gain the data are the observation checklist and rubric assessment of writing a composition. Based on the result, the teacher asked students to read stories outside the classroom as homework. Then, the teacher did conference, reviewed the students’ understanding about narrative text, and did rewriting in class. In implementing independent Reading on mini stories the students were enthusiastic doing independent reading outside the class, and it is found that most of them categorized into good level and there is a few of them still categorized into low level. The ability of their writing is still in average criteria. It is shown based on their composition which has been analysed using ESL Composition Profile rubric. Finally the students enjoyed reading mini stories outside the classroom, got an opportunity to read a lot about narrative texts, built reading habit, and organized a good composition by using their own words after reading stories as their practice writing. It suggests that the teacher should select the interesting mini stories which are still related to the learning objective as reading material, the teacher should give the students good comments to encourage them to read more and combine the reading strategy with other skill besides writing. In addition it is suggested for other researcher that it could be conducted in different level of students and combined with other technique or game or interesting activities. Keywords: teaching writing, narrative, independent reading, mini stories. INTRODUCTION Realizing the importance of English, Indonesian government involves English as compulsory subject that should be taught in formal schools from primary school to secondary school. As stated on 2006 English Competence Standard, the students must be able to understand and produce both spoken and written text. For the eleventh grade of senior high school students, they should master some texts which cover report, narrative, analytical exposition, spoof, and hortatory exposition. Those are the genre of the text which is required to be mastered by them in the end of learning process. Moreover, there are four skills that should be mastered by students. One of them is writing. Writing is very needed to be mastered by the students since it can affect other skills. Writing can be a great tool to help students to learn how to form language, how to spell, how to put together a plot, and how to make a logical argument. Hence, writing is needed to be mastered by the students. Unfortunately, writing is one of the skills that most students are not interested in. It is the most complex skill since every single error is counted and it cannot be easily produced. Bell and Burnaby in Nunan (1991:6) said that: “Writing is an extremely complex cognitive activity that inquires the writer to demonstrate control of several variables at once. At sentences level, they include control of contents, format, sentence structure, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling and letter formation. Beyond the sentence, the writer must be able to structure and integrate information into cohesive and coherent paragraphs and texts”. Teaching learning writing is not easy to do. Dhiasa (2009) stated that the students often face difficulties in learning writing. They are difficult to show their imagination. They spend much time to get the ideas to start writing. They do not have enthusiasm to write. Moreover, they have a few of literary review. These are caused by many reasons such as poor knowledge, and lack of time to practice writing. Finally, they cannot write creatively and well then they get bad score and nasty comments. Hadaway et al. in Diaz-Rico (2004:166) declared that writing can make us reach beyond ourselves. It is truly the most complex of the communication arts that combines reading and oral language. It is meant that writing is not a single activity. It is not only about writing but also about reading. Reading is completely important to start to write. It is impossible to write without having any ideas. The ideas itself can be taken from what have already been read. Reading and writing are connected each other. A new idea might appear after finishing reading, and writing is the patch to put that new idea. It means that they are inseparable activities. Krashen in Kusumawardhani (2006:2) stated that reading can help the students become a good reader, get an adequate vocabulary, master grammar, become a good speller and develop a good writing style. Reviewing the problem mentioned above, it is needed many kinds of methods, techniques or strategies to teach writing. There is a strategy to learn writing which is integrated with reading. It is called Independent Reading. Krashen (1993) in (Bray, 2002) provides an overview of research indicating that learners who read continuously can gain in reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and writing ability. Moreover, Elbow and Belanoff (2000) cited in Day (2004) stated that there is an activity which involves students in free writing. However, they are not asked to rewrite any topic they want; they are asked about what have been read, especially on mini stories. It allows the students a set period of time to think about their texts before they begin to rewrite. Therefore, Independent Reading on mini stories is seen to be the effective way in getting the students’ knowledge as literary review about activities in the past before they start writing something. This strategy is applied in Senior High School which is integrated with one genre of texts that eleventh graders have to be mastered. It is a narrative text. Narrative text is a text that tells a story in the past. By mastering this text, the students are expected to be able to express their feeling, thought and ideas about the past activities after they read the mini stories. RESEARCH METHOD This research is design based on descriptive qualitative research. It described the implementation of Independent reading on mini stories in the teaching writing narrative text in senior high school. Charter (1972:78) in Rifa’i (2007) said that descriptive qualitative studies include current condition which concerns the nature group of person, a group of objects, a class, etc. and it involves of inductive, analysis, classification, or measurement. It is meant that the purpose of this study is to describe an event that happens in the society and does not examine any hypothesis. The subject of the study was the English teacher and the students of eleventh graders, XI-A5 class in SMA Negeri 22 Surabaya. This class was chosen because narrative was taught in the eleventh graders. The teacher is also implemented Independent Reading on mini stories to teach writing narrative to the eleventh graders in three meetings. The data of this study are in form of information which is taken by observing the real situation when the teaching and learning happened in the class and collecting the students’ rewriting tasks in form of composition after being taught using Independent Reading. Then, the researcher classified the students’ rewriting in form of composition based on its organization, content, vocabulary, language use and mechanic using ESL Composition Profile. There are two instruments are used in getting the data. They are observation checklist in the form of “yes” or “no” option and students’ task to investigate the students’ writing ability after being taught by using of Independent Reading on mini-stories. The data for this study are taken by observing the real situation when the teaching and learning happened in the class and collecting the students’ rewriting tasks in form of composition after being taught using Independent Reading strategy. The topic was about folklore. Then, the researcher would classify the students’ rewriting in form of composition based on its organization, content, vocabulary, language use and mechanic using ESL Composition Profile. This method made the researcher easier to classify and identify the elements of writing that used by the students in their narrative text writing composition. This study was analysed descriptively. There are several steps to analyse the data. The observation checklist was used to check the observed aspect by checking “yes” or “no” in the real activities which happened in the classroom when the teacher applied Independent Reading on mini stories in each step during teaching writing narrative text. The result of observation was described, presented and analysed related to the facts that happened in the class. Then, the students’ task in form of composition which has been analysed by using ESL Composition Profile was divided into three groups, good, fair, and poor. It was used to describe the students’ writing result after being taught by using Independent Reading strategy on mini stories. Finally all of the data was combined to make a conclusion and suggestion. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS Findings The researcher used the data from observation checklist. It was limited to the material, the strategy, and the teaching learning process. Moreover, the researcher used the data from the students’ task in form of composition which were collected in three meetings. They were presented through description. Then, the data were analysed and categorized into three different levels; good, fair, and poor. The Implementation of Independent Reading on Mini Stories in Writing The first observation was done on Tuesday, 4th February 2014 in XI IPA 5 class. In this meeting, the teacher introduced the Independent Reading strategy and reviewed narrative text. The students should read a mini story then rewrite it by using their own words. The teacher gave folklore story because it was familiar with the students. The folklore story was given in order to make the students read easily and happily. It is given because the folklore was based on the learning objectives. In pre-activity, the teacher greeted and checked the students’ attendance list. Unfortunately, three students were absent. Then, the teacher reviewed a little bit about simple past tense and narrative text which has been taught last semester. The explanation covered the function, the generic structure and the language features of the text. Mostly, the students still remember the elements of narrative text which is shown that they could answer the teacher’s questions about it. Moreover, they could analyse the generic structure of narrative text. In introducing the strategy which would be done, the teacher started to discuss about the books or texts that the students have read in their whole life. He also asked the students’ feeling after they read. Surprisingly, most students like reading books but they did not read any books or texts in English. They prefer reading in Bahasa Indonesia to English. After that, he asked the benefit of their reading activity. Most students answered that they felt very happy and gave respond enthusiastically. In whilst-activity, the teacher gave the first story about Aji Saka as the reading material to the students. The story is from their English book. This story has already given in the last semester. It is chosen because the students have already comprehended the story very well to make the students feel free to read and rewrite easily. It is the way the teacher used to introduce the strategy which integrated with writing. The students were asked to read the text in the classroom. This text was the easiest and the shortest one which was aimed to make the students enjoy reading. After the students finished reading the story, the teacher asked the students to collect the story in front of class and prepared a piece of paper. Then, he started to do the writing activity. The teacher gave instruction step by step to the students to start rewriting the story they have just read. In post-activity, the teacher asked students to collect their rewriting task. Before the teacher closed the meeting, the teacher gave new stories as the second material. The students should read them at home as homework. Then, the teacher reviewed some tips on enjoying reading. In summary, in the first meeting, the researcher found that the students were lazy and bored to read the story although the story was familiar. It is because the lesson was started after the break time. It was not only that, but there also was no van which made the class hot, so the students could not read with pleasure. Moreover, the students were not sure about the instruction of writing. It is showed when the teacher gave instruction step by step; some students seemed to not understand well what they had to do. They were so confused. It is because the teacher gave the instruction in English too fast. Seeing the students did not know what they had to do, the teacher combined the language he used with Bahasa Indonesia and English slowly. He also analysed the task in order to know the students’ shortcoming in rewriting a story in form of composition. It is hoped that the students could realize their mistakes and did not repeat the same mistakes for the next writing tasks. The second observation was conducted on Friday, 7th February 2014. The teacher has already analysed the students’ task in rewriting narrative text on the previous meeting, so that, the teacher knew the initial ability of the students. In this meeting the teacher would ask the students to rewrite one of the stories about Jaka Tarub and Nawang Wulan or The King, The Young Poor Fisherman, and The Fish which have already been given on the previous meeting as their homework by using the same instruction. Just like in the first observation, the teacher did the same activities in the class. In addition, in this meeting the teacher asked the students’ obstacles during reading, the differences between reading inside and outside the classroom and also the students’ feeling after reading. Most students gave their respond after they read the stories. The obstacles that the students had were varied such as they felt sleepy during the reading and they were not interested in the material because there were not enough pictures that made them enjoy reading. However, the students felt better when they read the stories outside the classroom. It is because they did not need to read in rush so they had much time to finish their reading. Therefore they could understand the story well. Then, the students also gave their respond about their feeling after reading. Most of them were excited to read more and more. They enjoyed reading because the material that they read were understandable and the words in the story were very common. After that, the teacher reviewed the previous story for a while in order to correct the students’ mistakes that they made in rewriting the story on the previous meeting. Therefore, the teacher knew the students’ ability in writing. In summary, in the second meeting, the teacher found that the students have enjoyed reading outside the class and understood what they had to do in writing activity. Therefore teacher used English in giving the instruction of rewriting. It is not only that, the teacher also gave music to make the students relax. They seemed to be more confident on their ability to remind, rethink and rewrite the story than previous meeting. Then the third observation was conducted on Tuesday, 11th February 2014. It was conducted in the same class. In this meeting, the teacher asked the students to rewrite one of the stories they have already read about The Gift of Jackal, The Wicked Magician or Love Conquers Death as reading material. All the process of this meeting was the same as the second meeting. The Students’ Narrative Text Result after the Implementation of Independent Reading On Mini Stories in Teaching Writing Narrative Text In this part, it deals with the students’ narrative writing result after the implementation of independent reading on mini stories in teaching writing narrative text from the first, the second and the third task. The students’ narrative writing were analysed by using ESL Composition Profile; that are organization, content, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. Afterwards, they were divided into three levels. They are good, fair and poor. The result can be showed in the table below, Level Number of the students First task Second task Third task Very Good - - - Good 6 9 13 Fair 8 10 12 Poor 18 16 10 Table 4.1 The Result of Students’ Narrative Writing in the first, the second and the third task. In the first task, the teacher used the story about Aji Saka to rewrite. It is because the story was the easiest and the shortest. There are five aspects which have to be analysed in rewriting narrative story in form of composition. The content is the first and the most important aspect. It tells the ideas of the writer which they wanted to write. The second aspect is organization. In this part of writing narrative text, the students should write the story based on the generic structure of narrative. It deals with orientation, complication and resolution. Then, the third aspect in writing narrative text is vocabulary. It is about the words choice and usage of the writer which they want to share. The students applied the vocabulary they have learned while doing independent reading on mini stories to make their own words more different than the original. The next important aspect is language use. This aspect deals with the students’ ability in language which include with sentence construction, tenses, word order or function, pronoun, and preposition. The last aspect in writing narrative text is mechanic. The term mechanics deals with convention, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing. Based on the first task in the first meeting, it can be concluded that there were many students who were still confused to develop the ideas, composing the generic structure of the narrative text, making good sentences by using sophisticated range of vocabulary, creating good construction, and also demonstrating mastery of convention. Meanwhile in the second task, it is stated that some students showed a few good changes in writing narrative text. They occasionally made errors in delivering ideas, composing generic structure and mastering convention. However, in choosing the vocabulary and using the correct tenses, the students still got difficulties to practice it into a good story. It is because most students considered that the tenses were too difficult to be understood, and also it is because the teacher usually conducts the test for only the tenses. The teacher used Jaka Tarub and Nawang Wulan and The King, The Young Fisherman and the Fish as the second mini stories as reading material. They are still about folklore. They are also longer than the first. It is because the students had some times to read them outside the class as their homework. The students could choose one of the stories above to rewrite into a good composition. In the third task, the students’ writing narrative result was better than in the first and second task. They could deliver the organization of the story, rarely made the same mistakes of using past tense, arrange the story in a good paragraph. The teacher used the stories about The Gifts of The Jackal, The Wicked Magician, and Love Conquers Death as reading materials. The collections of short stories were from Indian folktale. Moreover, those stories were covered in a book which titled as Love Conquers Death and other stories. Discussions From the data through observation checklist, it is obvious that the implementation of Independent Reading on mini story can be integrated with writing in teaching writing narrative text. It is shown that the students more enjoyed reading mini stories outside the class which can be seen from their conference with the teacher before starting to rewrite. It helped the students to build their interest in reading without any forces. It is in line with Harris (1998:3) stated that independent reading refers to the outside reading activity that students do on their own with no help or guidance from the teacher. In addition, it was normal if there were some students got difficulties in understanding the steps of rewriting the story during the teaching process. From this situation, the teacher switched the language to Bahasa Indonesia. By using bilingual which covers English and Bahasa Indonesia, the teacher could know the students’ comprehension in steps of rewriting a story. Thus, the students could rewrite the story using the steps of rewriting well. In the process of rewriting narrative text itself; it would need a lot of energy. It is because it had long process and need more times. Therefore, the teacher role was much needed. It is to help the students develop viable strategies for pre-writing (getting started, generating indefinite ideas, and collecting information), drafting (scrawling down the ideas, making rough draft), revising (checking rough draft, adding, deleting, modifying, and rearrange ideas), and editing (attending to vocabulary, sentence, structure, grammar and mechanic) (Gebhard, 1996). On the other side to answer the second statements of problem, which is ‘How is the students’ writing result after being taught by using of Independent Reading strategy on mini stories?’ The data was gathered from the students’ task of rewriting a mini story after being taught by using Independent Reading. The data was discussed from the first, second and the third observation in form of a composition narrative text. Based on the first students’ task, the students got difficulties to compose text based on the generic structure, to implement the past tenses in the story, and also to develop the ideas more detail. Few of them were confused in using the correct spelling, punctuation, paragraphing and capitalization and selecting the appropriate vocabulary. However, most students have shown changes in their narrative writing in the second and third tasks. It means that the students practiced writing well in term of content, organization, vocabulary, language feature and mechanic from the first task to the second task then the third task and they comprehended the elements of writing well. In the end, the students got better understanding in presenting their ideas to the development of narrative text, providing vocabulary better and richer, using their knowledge of English, implementing the convention rules in their narrative writing and achieved adequate result. It is in line with was stated by Krashen (1993) in Bray (2002) that reading continuously can help the students develop a good writing style. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Conclusion It was concluded that by using Independent Reading on mini stories in writing activities, the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 22 Surabaya have enjoyed reading mini stories outside the classroom, got an opportunity to read a lot about mini-story, built reading habit, reviewed grammar, and have organized a good composition by using their own words after reading stories as their practice writing. Moreover, in the process of doing this strategy, the teacher selected the material according to the criteria for standard competence of curriculum and based on the students’ level of difficulty in vocabulary, content and sentence construction. The teacher also gives a model and steps how to rewrite a short story. The last is about the process of writing itself. This is the time when the students were asked to rewrite the story they have already read at home to know the students’ result during the implementation of Independent Reading on mini stories in writing activities. The result is found that the students generally grouped as “GOOD” and few of them still grouped as “POOR”. It is because the students’ ability in that class is still in low level. However, this strategy could help students getting fluency in expressing their ideas in rewriting the story. It could be seen from their result that they rarely made mistakes in their rewriting. Suggestion Based on the conclusion above, it is important to give some suggestion to the teacher and other researcher. This suggestion is pointed to the teacher related to the implementation of independent reading on mini stories. First, the teacher should select the interesting mini stories which are still related to the learning objective as reading material. 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