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Pryla Rochmah Wati
Graduate Program of State University of Malang
e-mail: rpryla@yahoo.com
Abstract: This Action research was intended to improve the students’ EFL writing ability through “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy. This research involved 15 second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah I Jombang in the academic year 2008/2009. This research was conducted in two cycles by following the procedures of the action research, namely, planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Each cycle of the research encompassed three meetings. The data of the research were gathered through observation checklists, field notes, questionnaire, and portfolio. The findings of research showed that “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy has proven effectively to improve the student’ writing ability. The improvement could be seen from the increase of the students’ average writing score. Besides, “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy can increase the students’ participation during the process of writing.
Key words: “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy, writing ability
Among the four language skills, writing belongs to a productive skill. Dixon and Denise (1983) cited in Eksan (2004) stated that as a productive skill, writing plays an important role in communicating ideas, thoughts, and messages to a reader for a purpose. Writing as one of the four language skills plays an important role in the context of English teaching as a foreign language in Indonesia. Hyland (2003:9) viewed that writing is a way of sharing personal meanings and it emphasizes the power of the personality to construct someone’s view based on a certain topic. Writing comprises communicating a particular message in the written form (Spratt, 2005: 26). However, writing is regarded as the most difficult skill for foreign language learners to master because it involves several components which need to be considered while the learners are writing, such as content, organization, vocabulary, language use and punctuation (Brown, 2004:244–245). In addition, writing is linked with several components of language such as choice of word, grammar, syntax, mechanism, and generating of ideas (Gebhard, 2000: 211). Furthermore, writers should pay attention both on the goal of writing itself and the readers (Gebhard, 2000: 211)
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Pryla Rochmah Wati
Graduate Program of State University of Malang
e-mail: rpryla@yahoo.com
Abstract: This Action research was intended to improve the students’ EFL writing ability through “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy. This research involved 15 second year students of MTs Muhammadiyah I Jombang in the academic year 2008/2009. This research was conducted in two cycles by following the procedures of the action research, namely, planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Each cycle of the research encompassed three meetings. The data of the research were gathered through observation checklists, field notes, questionnaire, and portfolio. The findings of research showed that “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy has proven effectively to improve the student’ writing ability. The improvement could be seen from the increase of the students’ average writing score. Besides, “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy can increase the students’ participation during the process of writing.
Key words: “Put Yourself in the Picture” strategy, writing ability
Among the four language skills, writing belongs to a productive skill. Dixon and Denise (1983) cited in Eksan (2004) stated that as a productive skill, writing plays an important role in communicating ideas, thoughts, and messages to a reader for a purpose. Writing as one of the four language skills plays an important role in the context of English teaching as a foreign language in Indonesia. Hyland (2003:9) viewed that writing is a way of sharing personal meanings and it emphasizes the power of the personality to construct someone’s view based on a certain topic. Writing comprises communicating a particular message in the written form (Spratt, 2005: 26). However, writing is regarded as the most difficult skill for foreign language learners to master because it involves several components which need to be considered while the learners are writing, such as content, organization, vocabulary, language use and punctuation (Brown, 2004:244–245). In addition, writing is linked with several components of language such as choice of word, grammar, syntax, mechanism, and generating of ideas (Gebhard, 2000: 211). Furthermore, writers should pay attention both on the goal of writing itself and the readers (Gebhard, 2000: 211)
