The research questions of this research were how does sentence outline improve the students of the second year of SMP Negeri 4 Sungguminasa ability to write paragraph? The researcher used A Classroom Action Research (CAR). The aims of this research are to find out the improvement of students' writing skill and their activeness in learningIt has been generally believed that writing in English means the ability to express idea, feeling, opinion, imagination, and knowledge into written form more freely. Although it seems to be more freely, in fact, writing process is still considered as one language skill that is most difficult to perform. Many complicated requirements should be included to produce good writing result. A writer must master such an enough vocabulary even though synonym or antonym of the word to express good and understandable thought or idea. Furthermore, as we know that some words or vocabularies have different meaning when they used in different occasion.Writing can also be stated as how to arrange the symbol, that is letter or combination of letters that related to the sound when people speak, according to certain convention into words form, and word has to be arranged into sentence They may be allowed to use sentences informally. In another side, writing communication requires. Communicant (or writer) to be more bounded.They have to follow the suitable agreed procedures in expressing ideas in order that they are understood by the receiver.Besides, speaking and reading, in teaching and learning English, especially for students in SMP or SMA, the comprehension towards the writing paragraph form is also responded as the main goal, but the fact shows that the majority of them are not, at least, competent in paragraph writing ability. It is reasonable that they do not only learning English but also some other subject matters. Even English subject is only taught for twice every week.In English writing activities, the students or learners sometimes find many difficulties. There are at least two factors that many affect the difficulty in writing, namely (1) the lack of knowledge to express the writers' ideas in a form of writing, and (2) available in providing the students with an effective, efficient, and comprehensible technique, especially in teaching writing in short duration time. Writing is very important to learn, because we can absorb, organize our ideas, and process some of information through writing. Meanwhile, some recent research shows that a majority people, including students, lack the expected reading and writing skill necessary to cope with the information explosion. In this sense, before writing anything, one way to prepare is outlining what is going to write. An outline will help to keep the writer thinking in order. It is necessary to seek outlining as a writing technique in the classroom. Through outlined ideas, the students will practice how to write precisely and clearly. They will practice how to write and say what they mean and choose the right words.Many linguists per...
This research is aimd to find out the effect of teachers’ creativity The Effect of Teachers’ Creativity on Students Interest in Learning English in The Second Grade SMP Negeri 2 Tinambung. The problem statements are two namely: 1) How is students perception of learning English?, What are the effect of teachers’ creativity on students’ interest in learning English at SMP Negeri 2 Tinambung ?.This research was descriptive qualitative. The population is the second grade student SMP Negeri 2 Tinambung which consist of 25 students. The sample taken from B class of SMP Negeri 2 Tinambung. The instrument use are interview and questionnaire. However, the subjects of this research were 25 students of the second grade at SMP Negeri 2 Tinambung. The researcher employed Descriptive-qualitative method and the instrument of this research were conducted through interview and questionnaire The research findings showed that the effect of teachers’ creativity on student’s interest in learning English was very important it can increase student enthusiasm for receiving the material and can increased students interest in learning English.
The objective of this research was to find out the improvement of content and organization in writing skill by using Sedona Method at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Batara, Gowa. The researcher used A Classroom Action Research (CAR). The Researcher had conducted two cycles, where each cycle consisted of four meetings. This classroom Action Research (CAR) was at The Eighth Grade of SMA Batara Gowa, Class XB. As the subject in this research was the X Grade with students’ number as about 29 students. The instruments were writing test and observation sheet. The application of Sedona Method can improve the students’ writing, especially in content and organization. This leads to the conclusion that application of Sedona Method was needed in the English Language teaching and learning in improve their competence to organize their idea. Sedona Method that was focused on the learners can engage the students to organize their ideas better than before. The findings of the research were (1) the students’ content achievement was improved 9.98% from diagnostic test to cycle 1 and was improve 10.03% from cycle I to cycle II (2) the students’ organization achievement was improving 8.63% from diagnostic test to cycle I and improved 10.03% from cycle I to Cycle II. From the description above it could conclude the improving of the students’ writing skill in the descriptive paragraph in terms of content and organization by using Sedona Method at the Tenth Grade of SMA Batara Gowa was improved.Keywords: Writing Skill, Sedona Method
This research aimed to explain the improved of the students’ reading comprehension in terms of literal comprehension dealing with main idea and details and summarizing dealing with content and logical order. A classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at X students of SMA Gunung Sari Makassar with a number of the subject were 20 students. The research findings indicate that the application of Three Minute Pause strategy was significant in improving the students’ reading comprehension in terms of literal comprehension and summarizing. It was proved by the mean score of the cycle I was 6.88then increased to be 7.87 in cycle II. They were higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 4.77. It means that there was the improved of the students’ reading comprehension in terms of literal comprehension dealing with main idea and details and summarizing dealing with content and logical order.
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