Wati, Pryla Rochmah (2010) The implementation of "put yourself in the picture" strategy to improve EFL writing ability if the second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah 1 Jombang / Pryla Rochmah Wati. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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ABSTRACT Wati Pryla Rochmah. 2009. The Implementation of Put Yourself in the Picture Strategy to Improve EFL Writing Ability of the Second Year Students of MTs Muhammadiyah 1 Jombang. Unpublished Thesis. Graduate Program in English Language Education. State University of Malang. Advisor (I) Dr. Johannes Ananto Prayogo M.Pd M.Ed. (II) Prof. Drs. Bambang Yudi Cahyono M.Pd M.A Ph.D. Keywords Put Yourself in the Picture strategy writing ability Writing is one of the language skills that contributes to the successful learning of a language. Recently writing has been overlooked. The most common problem that confronts writing teachers lies on how to motivate the students to write interesting materials. As a result the students ability in constructing the paragraphs is still poor. This research is aimed to develop Put Yourself in the Picture strategy to improve writing EFL ability of the second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah I Jombang. This strategy is selected since it can guide the students to generate ideas into a meaningful composition by placing themselves in the pictures. The research problem of this study is How can the implementation of Put Yourself in the Picture strategy improve the EFL writing ability of the second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah I Jombang To achieve the purpose the researcher conducted action research that was employed by following four stages planning implementing observing and reflecting. The subjects of the research were 15 students of the second year of MTs Muhammadiyah 1 Jombang in 2008/2009 academic year. This study was implemented in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. The data of the study were gathered through the following instruments observation checklists field notes questionnaires and portfolio. The data were analyzed to obtain the findings of the research. The findings of the study showed that the appropriate steps used in implementing Put Yourself in the Picture strategy consisted of the following procedures (1) leading students to the topic by giving some questions and showing a picture(s) related to the topic discussed (2) introducing the strategy and distributing the pictures and the worksheet (3) assigning the students to work in group (4) informing students about the things they should do in their groups (5) asking the students to place themselves in the picture and answering in a list the questions What can you see in the pictures and What do the people do in the pictures (6) asking the students to make sentences based on their lists (7) giving a model of descriptive text and explaining generic structure and generic features (Simple Present Tense Preposition) of descriptive texts (8) assigning the students to write the first draft (9) exchanging the works in group to get feedback by peer-revising (10) giving time to the students to do conference with the teacher and (11) editing the first draft to make the final draft. The results of the study also revealed that Put Yourself in the Picture strategy had improved the ability of the second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah 1 in writing descriptive texts. The improvement was indicated by the increase of students average writing scores from 46.22 in preliminary study 54.53 in the first cycle and 68 in the second cycle. Besides the results of the study showed that the students were enthusiastic and active in the teaching and learning process using Put Yourself in the Picture strategy. From the research findings it can be inferred that Put Yourself in the Picture strategy is not only effective in improving the students writing ability but also in enhancing their participation in the learning process. Therefore it is suggested that English teachers apply Put Yourself in the Picture since it is beneficial in terms of giving the students an easy way to generate ideas to make a meaningful composition. Finally it is suggested that further researchers to conduct similar action research in the teaching of writing of descriptive texts in the different level of education for example Elementary School. Moreover it is also suggested that future researchers conduct action research in the teaching of writing using different genres for instances narrative and recount texts. ABSTRAK Wati Pryla Rochmah. 2009. Implementasi Strategi Put Yourself in the Picture untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menulis Bahasa Asing Siswa Kelas 2 MTs Muhammadiyah 1 Jombang. Tesis. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Program Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Malang. Pembimbing (I) Dr. Johannes Ananto Prayogo M.Pd M.Ed. (II) Prof. Drs. Bambang Yudi Cahyono M.Pd M.A. Ph.D Kata-kata Kunci strategi Put Yourself in the Picture kemampuan menulis teks diskriptif
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2010 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2010 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58407 |
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