IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL USING PAIR CHECK METHOD AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 3 JETIS IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016.

Keywords : Writing Skill, Descriptive text and Pair Check Method.
This research is improving students writing skill using pair check method
at the second grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Jetis, the problem writing in SMP
Muhammadiyah 3 Jetis, they are lack vocabulary,low grammar. how can Pair
Check method improve students ability in writing descriptive text at the second
grade of SMP Muhmmadiyah 3 Jetis in the 2015/2016 academic year?. The
purpose of this research is to improve teaching writing using Pair Check Method ,
to know the improvement of students writing skill using Pair Check Method at the
second grade of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Jetis in the 2015/2016 academic year.
The subject in the study was the students of the second grade of SMP
Muhammadiyah 3 Jetis that consisted of 20 students. The research was started on
May 4th, 2016 until 14 th 2016, the research was conducted in two cycles and used
CAR research design. They were English test, observation check list, and
questionnaire.
There are improvement result of test from first cycle until second cycle,
the average of result is 68.8 at the first cycle and 80.57 at the second cycle. From
the result of the test, it can be concluded that Pair Check Method success to
improve students wrting skill. Based on the observation checklist and
questionnaire data in the first cycle and the second cycle, there are improvement
averages of score. The observation check list in the first cycle the process got 62.5
%, in the second cycle got 95.83% , then the questionnaire in the first cycle got
77.55% and the second cycle got 82.1 %. It could be said that the students were
interested and became active during teaching and learning process using Pair
Check Method.
Finally, the researcher gives suggestions to the English teachers that they
can use Pair Check Method as alternative method in teaching writing, then
researcher expects English teacher or other can apply the Pair Check Method to
improve students creativities in learning, because this method can be used for the
other subject.