IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT THE TENTH GRADE OF MA DARUL FIKRI PONOROGO BY USING CARD SORT METHOD IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

NINGRUM, VICKA WIDYA (2014) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT THE TENTH GRADE OF MA DARUL FIKRI PONOROGO BY USING CARD SORT METHOD IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo.

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Abstract

Widya Ningrum, Vicka. 2014. Improving Students’ Writing Skill at the Tenth Grade of MA Darul Fikri Ponorogo by Using Card Sort Method in the Academic Year of 2013/2014. Thesis. English Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Ponorogo. Advisor: (1) Siti Asiyah, M.Pd. (2) Diyah Atiek Mustikawati, M.Hum. Key Words: Card Sort Method, Writing skill Writing is important skill, because one of the keys in English communication is writing ability. The students of MA Darul Fikri Ponorogo had difficulties in learning writing, especially in making the sentence or paragraph. These problems were caused by the lack of vocabularies. Besides, the students did not have strong motivation in learning. Students felt bored and tired when they study English. Researcher used card sort method to solve this cases. The problem of this research is how does Card Sort method in order to improve the ability in writing descriptive text of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Fikri Ponorogo in the academic year of 2013/2014. The purpose of this research is to know of the improvement of Card Sort method in order to improve the ability in writing descriptive text of the tenth grade students of MA Darul Fikri Ponorogo in the academic year of 2013/2014. The subject of this research was the students XA grade of MA Darul Fikri Ponorogo started on November 27th – December 03rd 2013, which consisted of 25 students. The study was conducted in two cycles. The writer used three research instruments, they were: observation check list, questionnaire, and test. From the data, it could be seen that the questionnaire result increased from 55,08% in cycle 1 to 87,33% in cycle 2, it means that the students enjoyed teaching learning process and the observation checklist showed that students’ activeness increased from 58,75% in cycle 1 to 89,00% in cycle 2, it means that the students active in this lesson. The test showed that there were 11 students who got low score under basic minimum standard score 70 in cycle 1. Then in cycle 2, all of the students had improved the score and they also reached the minimum score was 70. It means that the study had been succesfull using card sort method because all of the students got ≥ 70. Finally, the researcher suggests for English teachers to encourage students to write, the students should be active in the class and do not feel shy or confuse to express their ideas in English, the school should support the teachers in developing their quality in teaching English, and the next researcher develops this method by using various kinds of media to get better result of teaching and learning process.

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Departement of Teacher Training and Education > Department of English
Depositing User:	Editor FKIP
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2014 02:20
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2014 02:20
URI:	http://eprints.umpo.ac.id/id/eprint/104

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