The use of team pair solo technique combined with picture as medium in teaching writing descriptive text

Abstract

This study was conducted to explore the implementation of Team Pair Solo and picture by an English teacher in teaching writing descriptive text. The aim was to describe the implementation of Team Pair Solo and picture in teaching writing descriptive text by English teacher, reveal the difficulties that faced by English teacher in teaching writing descriptive text using Team Pair Solo and picture, and explain how the English teacher solves those difficulties. In this study, I used qualitative method. The participant of this study was an English teacher in SMK NU 01 Hasyim Asy’ari Tarub in the academic year of 2019/2020. In this study, I used questionnaire, interview, classroom observation, and document analysis as data collection methods. The result revealed that the teacher integrated Team Pair Solo and picture with another teaching technique namely lecturing technique, other language skills (speaking, reading, and listening) and also a game. The game was intended to build the students’ enthusiasm in learning. This study showed that there was one main difficulty faced by the English teacher namely students’ limited vocabulary. In conclusion, Team Pair Solo and picture were an interesting and helpful technique and media that helped English teacher in the teaching and learning process and it was somewhat easy to be implemented. The technique and media also helped students to be actively engaged in the classroom activity.

The Using of Roundtable Technique to Improve Grade Eight Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text at SMP Swasta Taman Asuhan

“…A text namely descriptive text is used to telling someone about the characters of particular things that can be anything, in order to describe the physical appearance of its self. It is proven by Anderson and Anderson as cited in Urunami et al (2017) stated that descriptive text is included information reports, a typical information report includes facts about the subject, a description, and details on its components, behaviors, and characteristics. Siburian (2013) stated that descriptive text is a text filled with paragraphs that vividly despites things and use it as a way or better strategy for developing a picture of what something looks like.…”

“…There was some previous research. The research was conducted by Flora et al (2020), Sinaga (2017) & Urunami et al (2017). These researches used Roundtable Technique to improve students' writing ability.…”

“…By addressing the issues that students encounter when writing descriptive texts, this technique is anticipated to make learning environment more engaging. Researchers used this technique because there are evidences that have been done by previous researchers who reported it in journals that used roundtable technique (Flora et al, 2020;Sinaga, 2017;Urunami et al, 2017).…”