Improving students’ writing ability in descriptive text by using task based language teaching at SMA N 1 Batang Onang

Harahap, One Aini Hakim (2018) Improving students’ writing ability in descriptive text by using task based language teaching at SMA N 1 Batang Onang. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research talked about improving students’ writing ability in dscriptive text by using task based language teaching at ten grade students of SMA N 1 Batang Onang, the students’ problems in learning descriptive text and the students problem in writing ability. Students not interested to study English.Then, Students still found the difficulties in understanding grammar, vocabulary, form, how to make a good text and the using of punctuation. The purpose of this research is to describe students’ improvement in writing ability in descriptive text at ten grade of SMA N 1 Batang Onang. The research method which apply in this research was classroom action research, by implementing action reserch spiral by Kemmis design which consisted four steps. Those were, planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Moreover to solve the problem in the action the researcher used task based language teaching method. The participants of this research were all the students in the classroom X MIA 2 SMA N 1Batang Onang that consisted of 30 students also by collaboration with English teacher. The data of this research were qualitative and quantitative data. Based on the research result, showed in the first meeting the mean scorewas5.16 (10%),the second meeting the mean score was 73.33 (33.33%).The third meeting the mean score was 77,16 (53.33%). Then the last meeting, the means score was 80.83 (73.33%). The comparative of students’ total mean in cycle 1up to the cycle 2 was 1.832,5 in first cycle and 2.370 in the second cycle, and the percentage was 1.28%. So the hypothesis that was task based language teaching can improve students writing ability in descriptive text at grade X MIA 2 SMA N 1 Batang Onang could accepted.

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