Improving the Students’ Writing in Narrative Text through Beyond Centers and Circle Time (BCCT) Method for the Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri

Improving the Students’ Writing in Narrative Text through Beyond Centers and Circle Time (BCCT) Method for the Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.    Background

Writing is one of the four skills in English that is necessary to be taught.   Many students say that writing is the most difficult one. It is caused by their ignorance about what and how to write.Writing is admitted widely as one of the most difficult skills that students ever do, either in foreign language or in their native language.

There are many students find that difficulty when they are asked to write because they do not know how to start and what topic that they should choose. Besides that, uninteresting topic and unsuitable teaching methods can influence students’ interest in writing ability. To break through the problem, English teachers have to be more creative in choosing the materials and methods which can make the writing class

more interesting, exciting, and enjoyable. It can be done by choosing an appropriate material and method that students like based on the students’ level and background of knowledge.

Writing will be used as a generic term to refer to all the various activities that involves transferring through paper. Writing that focuses primarily on the conventions of language form, i.g. grammatical or lexical structures will be termed transcription. The term composition will refer to the skills involved in effectively developing and communicating an idea or making  a point. There are many methods and techniques in teaching and learning writing. If the method of teaching English is suitable for the students, they will enjoy it. So, the students will enhance their ability in the language. Besides that, the teacher gathers some information about the students’ progress and then doing the evaluation to measure the students’ achievement. It is better to give the students some assessment to measure their achievement in writing. Basri. D (2007)

                                    The most important reason for teaching writing is that it is a basic language skill, just as important as speaking, listening and reading. Students need to know how to write letter, how to put written reports together, they need to know some of writing’s special convention such as punctuation, paragraph construction, etc just as the need to know how to pronounce spoken English appropriately.

                 After conducting diagnostic test, the researcher decides to implement The  beyond  centers  and  circle time  (BCCT)  to  enhance  the  students writing narrative  text. It will be held at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Baraka.  In the school, the researcher has found some problems which related to writing skill that is faced by the students. The student’s skill is still low and so far from the target of score where the students’ average score is (53.62%) . meanwhile the succesful minimal criteria (KKM) are 70. It’s mean that, the researcher still needs to take an action for the next cycle.

            The researcher did an observance in the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Baraka and the writer observation of some students did not know how to make correct in writing especially in writing narrative text. So, the researcher hope that the tenth grade has got good achievement of writing narrative, but the fact indicates that their achievement is still low. In this context, there is a gap between what we hope and what the fact show. So, it is important to find out a good strategy in teaching narrative text. Based on the problem above, the researcher will conduct this research under the title “Improving Students’ Writing Narrative Text through Beyond Centers and Circle Time (BCCT) method. (A classroom action research at the tenth grade of SMA)

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The Improvement Of Students’ Ability In Writing Recount Text Through Jumbled Summary Strategy

The Improvement Of Students’ Ability In Writing Recount Text  ThroughJumbled Summary Strategy

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.  Background

Writing is important way in communication for human life because it is one of the language skills. By writing skill, someone is asked to be clearly formed of writing in order to the communication will be easier to be understood. The importance of writing for human life is the same as the importance in school environment.

Writing is needed in school environment not only as tool for transferring the  knowledge from teacher to the students and student with students, but also as one of  English skills that should be learned

by students, besides others skill like, reading, speaking and listening.

As one skill of English, writing can  help students to learn and develop their English by expressing their knowledge, experience and so on. It can be expressed in form of essay a paragraph, a letter, a short story and etc.

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In respect to the writing ability, students should know their purpose in writing. When we asked about why they writing, students often say that they write because their teacher asked them and they need to do in the course. Carino (1990:5) explains that the reasons of a writer to write to provide information, to display knowledge, to entertain, to construct or persuade as audience, and to ask for something.

Nowadays, English has been studied in all level of school but not all of students like the method which is given by their teachers. In fact, learning English which the same teaching technique sometimes make  the student bored. Especially in writing, sometimes students are lack of vocabularies so that it can be obstruction to do that. However,we need the technique which can encourage the creativity and a sense of writing. The students need too the conducive to invite their brain to thinking andwe now many tools that the students can use to increase creative ideas in learning English,especially in writing activity.

 The students sometimes could not write their task with the many reasons.  Many aspect making the students could not write such asstudentsdo not know how to start the writing, they do not have enough ideas to write, and  could not generate their ideas, probably they understood what should ??????

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Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Neurological Impress Method (N.I.M) (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMA)

Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Neurological Impress Method (N.I.M) (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMA)

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.   Background

English is one of the subjects in Indonesia’s curriculum for elementary until university level and also become a subject which is examined in National Examinations. Law of National Education Standard (2005) stated: In the level of Senior High School (SMA) or other forms in the same level, National Examination includes subjects of Indonesia Language, English, Mathematics, and the subjects which are become the characteristics of Education Program.

Besides as a compulsory subject, English is also a need in this globalization era. The goals of teaching English in Indonesia are mainly to enable the students to use English for communication and to read books and references written in English. The students are expected to have skills of the English language such as

reading, writing, listening, speaking, and other elements of language that must be taught to the students through the chosen themes.

Among the four skills above, reading get greater attention than three others, because reading is one of the important skills. Reading can be defined as an active cognitive process of interacting with the print and monitoring comprehension to establish meaning and through reading we can get much knowledge, study new words, comprehend ideas, study the word are used, how to implement the grammatical rules, and gain the information from their reading material if they are able to derive meaning from what they read. By reading people can explore the world, find and improve new concept, enhance experience, find problem solving, and to up-date the changes in the world.

In syllabus of KTSP of Senior High School (2010) at the second grade, states that curriculum of education expect the students to be able to understand reading texts. In this case is especially for hortatory exposition through reading based on the context of the text. Constructing their ideas and automatically expressing their ideas into speaking and writing which are appropriate with environment where they are. It affirms that one of the basic competences that should be mastered by the students is reading comprehension. It proves that reading comprehension is very important in learning English.

As the explanation above, the researcher will use Neurological Impress Method (N.I.M) to improve the students reading ability especially in reading comprehension. It  can help the students to express their ideas and can be able to comprehend the text or  material they read. It will be held at the second year students of SMA Wahyu Makassar. In that school the students still lack of ability to express their own ideas through reading. It is proved from their successful minimal criteria (KKM) are 7.0 while the students just got 6.0, which the researcher has taught in P2K (Teaching Practice) for two months. It means very low. Such problems are found by the researcher through observation and teaching-learning process in diagnostic test.

The ultimate goals of reading are that learners should be able to read hortatory exposition material with comprehension. Reading along with a more fluent reader is thought of as an impress in of word memories on the natural process  (Heckelman in Imran, 2010). Based on the background above, the researcher would like to carry out a research under the title “Improving the Students’ Reading Comprehension through Neurological Impress Method (NIM) at the second grade Students of SMA

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