Improving students’ writing skill by using fishbone strategy at 8 grade SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan

Sitompul, M.aqib (2018) Improving students’ writing skill by using fishbone strategy at 8 grade SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research talks about improving students’ writing skill by using fishbone strategy at VIII grade SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The students problem were students’ writing skill still relatively lack, the students’ are lack on vocabulary, structure, technique, literature, and ideas. Then, students’ did not know how to express their ideas in writing, and the last students’ did not know how to systematize the writing and organize the ideas into writing. The purposes of this research are to describe the improvement of students’ writing skill and to identify the factors which influence students’ writing skill by using Fishbone Strategy. This research was categorized into classroom action research that consisted of two cycles. This research used model proposed by Kemmis and Mc Taggart designed were consisted four steps, there are; plan, action, observe, and reflect. The participants of this research were consisted of 28 students in grade VIII-1 of SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. The instrument of collecting the data is observation, test, and interview. Based on the research result, showed the improvement of students writing skill through implementation fishbone strategy. The students mean score using fishbone diagram strategy in Cycle1 was 50.35 (32.14%). The students mean score in Cycle 2 was 61.96 (50%). It can be concluded that the mean score in the Cycle 2 was higher than previous Cycle. Based on observation sheet stated that the students who got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning writing process. There are two factors influence when did the research, are first internal factor and second external factor. It asserted that Implementation Fishbone Diagram strategy can improve the students writing skill at grade VIII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan.

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