Using Case Building Debate Activity to Improve Students’ Writing Skill at MSains Program of Nuris School Jember.

Umami, Riza (2021) Using Case Building Debate Activity to Improve Students’ Writing Skill at MSains Program of Nuris School Jember. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: case building method, writing skill. Writing is an activity in which the writer writes down their ideas, thoughts, opinions, facts or even stories. Unlike speaking, writing is more complex and guarantees things, because when you write, it gives sophisticated words and many references with it. In the preliminary study, the researcher found that the students at English MSains program Nuris Jember had problems in writing. The students’ problems in writing were lack of vocabularies, lacked of idea to write and did not understand well about grammar uses. Besides, the students’ lacked of confident to write because those problems. According to the data from English teacher, the students’ writing achievement was still low which percentage of 50% and the average of 67,7. After discussing with the English teacher, we decided to implement case building method. Case building method is one of appropriate method to improve students’ writing achievement. Case building is one of activity inside of debate. It is a pre-stage before debating. Case building method could guides students to write structurally and coherently. Thus, this research used case building method to improve students’ writing ability. The research question in this research is, “How does using case building debate activity improve students’ writing skill at MSains program Nuris Jember.?”. Meanwhile, the objective of the research is to describe the using case building debate activity to improve students’ writing skill at MSains program Nuris Jember. The researcher used Classroom Action Research as the approach. The classroom action research design used in this research was a collaborative classroom action and research. The researcher conducted the research at English MSains class Nuris Jember which consisted of 18 students. This research was conducted in one cycle. The cycle consisted of four steps: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. To collect the data, the researcher used the students writing test, interview, field note and document review. The test utilized to find out the improvement of the students’ writing after the research was conducted. The result of the research shows that students’ writing skill have reached the criterion of success as much as 85,7%. The criterion of success in this research was if 60% of total the students got the minimum score (70) or more. The elements of writing which got improvement since implementing case building method were structure of writing, vocabulary, grammar (tenses) and mechanic (capitalization).

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