The Use of Chain Writing Technique to Improve Students' Descriptive Writing Skill at The 7th Grade of MTs Negeri 2 Banyuwangi

Azizah, Alfainur (2024) The Use of Chain Writing Technique to Improve Students' Descriptive Writing Skill at The 7th Grade of MTs Negeri 2 Banyuwangi. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Writing is one of the complex skills in learning English, because to master writing skills, students also need other English language skills, such as listening, reading and speaking. Writing skill is an important skill that can assist someone express their opinions in written form. Since writing skill is complicated skill, many students experience difficulties and challenges in writing. Based on interviews conducted with English teachers, most students had difficulty thinking of ideas to write, students did not know what to write as the content of the text. They were often stuck in starting to write because students were weak in vocabulary and afraid of making mistakes in grammatical structure. Due to the lack of writing practice, students still find it difficult to understand mechanics and organization when writing texts.
The research question of this research focused on “How does the use of Chain Writing technique improve students’ descriptive writing skill at 7th grade of MTs Negeri 2 Banyuwangi?”. The research objective was to describe how Chain Writing improves students’ descriptive writing skill text at 7th grade of MTs Negeri 2 Banyuwangi.
Classroom Action Research (CAR) with a model developed by Kemmis and McTaggart was used in this research. In this research, the researcher collaborated with an English teacher who acted as a teacher while the English teacher controlled and observed the class during the research. The subject of this research was 25 students of 7th grade of MTs Negeri 2 Banyuwangi.
The result of this research showed that students’ writing test improved from pre-test to the second post-test. On the pre-test, the mean score of students was 69,04 and the percentage of students who passed the criteria of success was 36% which means that there are 9 students who passed the criteria of success and 16 students did not pass the criteria of success. meanwhile in post-test 1, the mean score of students’ Post-test 1 was 72,32 and the percentage of students who passed the criteria of success in post-test 1 was 40% which means that there are 10 students who passed the criteria of success and 20 students did not pass the criteria of success. The students mean score in the post-test 2 was 80,36 and the percentage of students who passed the criteria of success in post-test 2 was 80% which means there were 20 students who passed the criteria of success and there were 5 students that did not pass the criteria of success.
The improvement above occurred because the chain writing technique involved several members in a group, each member contributed their thoughts, ideas, and concepts in making sentences and forming paragraph. Moreover, chain writing technique carried out collaboratively to produce good products. In addition, the work pattern of the chain writing technique was carried out in a systematic and well-organized manner. It was concluded that students' writing skills increased significantly after using The Chain Writing Technique in the teaching and learning process.

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