Improing students’ writing ability in narrative text through story mapping technique at grade XI SMA N 7 Padangsidimpuan

Rangkuti, Maimunah (2018) Improing students’ writing ability in narrative text through story mapping technique at grade XI SMA N 7 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about improving students’ writing ability in narrative text through story mapping technique at grade XI SMA N 7 Padangsidimpuan. Most of the students still got difficulties in delivering their idea, confused how to start their writing, and unable to build a sentence or paragraph correctly. The aim of this research is to know the result of using story mapping as an attempt to improve teaching writing of narrative text at grade XI SMA N 7Padangsidimpuan. The method that used in this research was classroom action research by implementing the Kurt Lewins’s design. There were four steps, they were plan, action, observe, and reflect. Moreover, to solve the writing problems the researcher applied story mapping technique. Moreover, the participants of this research were the class of XI SMA N 7 Padangsidimpuan consisted of 23 students. Meanwhile, the data were derived from writing test, and observation notes. Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. The first test in first cycle was 60.65 (21.73%), and second test in the second cycle was 80.65 (91.30%). It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Then, the calculation result of t0 = 8.44, ttable with df = 22, level of signification in (tt5% = 6.2). It can be known that the result of t0 is bigger than tt. The application of story mapping technique could improve students’ writing ability in narrative text and the hypothesis could be accepted.

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