Improving students’ writing ability by using genre based approach at grade XI SMKS Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Jamila (2015) Improving students’ writing ability by using genre based approach at grade XI SMKS Panca Dharma Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is talking about improving students’ writing ability by using genre based approach at grade XI SMKS PANCA DHARMA Padangsidimpuan. The objectives of the research is to describethe level ofachievement ofstudent and to identify the factors that influence the result ofstudents’ writing ability to learning in class SMKS PANCA DHARMA Padangsidimpuan. Researcher conducted classroom action research (CAR) to solve the students’ problem in writing. The CAR was done based on Kemis and Robin design. The researcher conducted two test and two cycles in this research. The participants of this research is one class consists of 26 students from class XI B SMKS PANCA DHARMA Padangsidimpuan, academic year 2015. The technique of data collection are test, observation, and interview. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that students’ writing ability was improved. It is supported by the result of the testing in cycle 1 was65 (34.61%) and cycle 2 was 73.84 (65.38%). Students’ problem in grammar is solved by researcher givingmore explanation about auxiliary verb, to be “is” and simple present tense in the next meeting clearly. Then, students’ problem in vocabulary is solved by researcher giving some vocabularies related to the learning material before starting learning process for the nextmeeting. Further, students’ problem in mechanic is solved by researcher giving more explanation about the function of pull stop, coma and spelling. When it was used and gave some example for it. In addition, students’ problem in fluency is solved by researcher giving more explanation about vocabulary items, structure and grammar. Finally, students’ problem in form is solved by researcher with motivated students to memorize more vocabularies.

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