A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH

by:
DINI WIDIASTUTI
2015044167

PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN PROFESI GURU (PPG)

PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA
 English teaching in Indonesia aimed to hepl and facilitate the
students to achieve communicative competence.
 They have to be able to communicate in English in both spoken and
writen language
 English teaching in Junior High School has to cover four skills.
 Writing is a difinetly a skill that the language teacher must teach to
their students.
 Writing activities can give the students chance to express theit ideas,
putting ideas in writen form and also organize words and gramatical
structure to make writing product meaningfull.
 From the previous study written by Noor Faizah (2014) the writer finding out
the improvement of students’ skill in writing procedure text through picture
sequence.

 Basen on the researcher observation on the ninth grade students of SMP N

216 Jakarta, the average of students’ score in writing procedure text was
69.47

 The students find difficulties to generate heir ideas based their imagination.
They also got difficulties in terms of content in writing and difficult related to
organize the sentences.

 The teacher does not use various media during the teaching learning
process.

 The researcher tries to apply picture sequence to improve students’ skill in

writing procedure text of the ninth grade students of SMP N 216 Jakarta.
 The writer makes the limitation of the problem on using picture

sequences media to improve students’ skill in writing procedure text.

 The writer plans to solve the problem through picture sequences

media to improve students’ skill in writing procedure text at the ninth

grade students of SMP N 216 Jakarta. The formulation of the

problem in this study is “How are the picture sequences improve the

ninth grade students’ skill in writing procedure text at SMP 216

Jakarta?’
 The objectives of this research are:

To know whether picture sequences media can improve the students’

skill in writing procedure text of the ninth graders of SMP N 216

Jakarta in the school year 2017/2018.

 Richard (2000:172) states writing is functional communication,
making learners possible to creat imagined worlds of their own
design.

 According to Brown (2001: 34), writing is the process of putting

ideas down on paper to transform thoughts into words, to sharpen
your main ideas, to give them structure of coherence organization.
While converting ideas from brain into written form, teacher has to
make sure all of his students pass the criteria of good writing.
 All of the definitions above explain clearly that writing is one of

productive skill as a mean of functional comunication as a process

of showing or expressing idea, opinion, or information in the mind of

the writer in the form of written language.

 2. Organization

1. Content
3. Vocabulary
The
Elements
of
Wiriting

5. Mecanics 4. Language Use

Arthur Hughes, Testing for Language Teachers,(NY: Cambridge

University Press, 2003), 2ndEd, p. 104.
THE WRITING PROCESS

Pre-Writing

Drafting

Sharing

Revising

Editing

Re-Writing

Evaluation
 Mark and Kathy Anderson through their book Text Types in English 3

defined a procedure text as a piece of text that tells the reader or

listeners how to do something. It purpose to provide instructions for

making something, doing something, or getting somewhere.

 Professional Developement Service for Teachers stated that a

procedure text has a social function to explain how something is done,

in a series of a sequenced steps.

 The writer conclude that procedure text is defined as a text that

explains, tell or shows someone how to do something, to make

something and how to be done in a series of sequenced steps.

 The social function of Procedure Text is to tell someone how

to do something or how to make something and how to

operate something in a sequenced steps.

 1. An introduction statement giving the aim or

goal.

 2. List of Materials/list of ingredients

 3. A sequence of steps
 1. Sentece begun with action verb

 2. Sequence words or temporal conjunction

 3. Adverb of manner

 4. Nouns or noun group

 Word related to direction and specific location

 Present tense is generally used

Acording to ( Harmer 2002: 69) there are various number of writing
tasks that students can be asked to undertake and one of them can be
given a series picture which tell story and they have to write story
based on pictures. He then adds that giving the students sequence
pictures as the writing task will incite them to be creative writers.

Wright (182-187) states : “ A picture sequences tend to range from four

to eight pictures that shows some events in a chronological order. It
can illustrate a story or a process”
1. A thesis by Noor Faizah ‘ Implementing Sequence Picture to Improve
Students’ Ability in Writing Narrative Text for Grade X of MAN LAB
UIN Yogyakarta in the Academic Year 2013/2014. Shows that
sequence picture can be good media to use in ELT process. From
the result of the research, students can elevate their ability in making
Narrative text when using sequence picture as media.

2. A thesis by Rosya Kurniati‘ The Effectiveness of Using Pictures on

Students’ Writing of Recount Text’ An Experimental Study at the
Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 9 Kota Tangerang Selata. In this
study proved that using sequence picture as a media can help the
students in writting recount text. The students got easyly in creating
recount text using picture.
 The process of thinking, drafting,
WRITING SKILL revising

Students difficulties how to generate

ideas, how to organize the sentence
coherently, how to revise the text for
Picture Sequence Media. clearer mening.

Teacher does not use various

media during learning process
 The type of this research is classroom action research (CAR) according to Kurt
Lewin’s Action Research Design

Pre-Cycle
 Cycle I Planning
Acting
Observing
Reflecting

 Cycle II Planning
Acting
Observing
Reflecting
 SUBJECT SETTING

 The subject of the research was  The writer carried out the research
in IX-5 class of SMP Negeri 216
ninth graders of SMPN 216 Jakarta. It is located at Jalan
Jakarta The teacher Salemba Raya No.18, Central
Jakarta. The English teacher is
recommended IX-5 as the subject. Dra. Hj. Euis Sartika, M.Pd. This
school has 45 teachers and 4
The total number of the students
teachers of English. It has 9
of this class consisted of 22 male classes in VII grade, 9 classes in
VIII and 9classes in IX, so there
students and 14 females. are 27 classes. The writer did the
research on September to
Oktober 2017.
Pre-Cycle
the researcher starts to observe the teaching learning process in
class
Cycle I

Planning Prepare the material, make lesson plan

Acting - Opening greeting and check the attendant list.

- Whilst activities giving the material using Picture Sequence
Media.
- Discussing the material and giving student’s worksheet

Observing The collaborator observes the students’ activities in the class by

using observation sheet duringteaching learning process.

Reflecting The researcher will evaluate the progress of the students and
classroom activity based on questionnaire and observation sheet.
 Cycle II
Planning The researcher revises the lesson plan that has been
made in cycle I and make the different topic.
Acting The procedure of activities is almost similar with
the first cycle, but the researcher carries out in
different topic.
Observing The collaborator will observe the first activity of
students’ learning process by using an observation
sheet.
Reflecting Reflection will do to know improving students’
reading skill of analytical exposition text and
changing of students’ activeness after the students
follow learning activity.
1. Non - Test
 Observation
 Documentation

2. Test
 The test is in the form of writing test. The students choosed
one of three picture sequence availabled. Then, they should
create procedure text based on the pictures in correct order.
 Quantitative Data - It is taken from the test result in Pre-Cycle,Cycle I,
and Cycle II and The data obtained students’ scores, calculating scores
from all aspects and calculating mean scores.

 Qualitative Data - The data are taken and discussed from the observation,
questionnaire and documentation.
1. Students can get the minimum passing grade of 78

2. Those who get the minimum passing grade is a least 75%

3. 75% students engage in the procedure text writing class.

 The Pre-test was conducted on October 29, 2017. The
average score from the pre-test ws 69.47. It belongs to
Fair Category. There are eighteen students who got
score under 70. Some of them are above 70. This result
was lower than standart minimum of 78.
The researcher conducted the post-test on 6th October
2017 to measure how the students’ ability in writing of
procedure text that had been studied.
The average score from Cycle I test was 74.44, It belongs
to Good Category. All of the students got the score above
70. There are 9 students who got above minimum criteria
and 27 students who got the score under KKM 78, but
there is an improvement students’ ability after the
researcher taught using picture sequence.
The average scores in Cycle II is 79.69 and it belonged into
good category. They increased their classroom average
score from 74.44 became 79.69. All of students got very
good category reached 100%. The students who got above
minimum criteria of 78 also increase from 9 become 21
students. It can be pointed that in Cycle II students’ skill in
writing procedure text had improved.
 The researcher compared the result of Pre-Cycle, Cycle I test, and
Cycle II to know the improvement of stidents’ skill in writing procedure
text. The improvement can be seen in table below:

Assessment
Average Score Improvement
Aspect

Pre-
Cycle I Cycle II PC-CI CI-CII PC-CII
Cycle
Average

69.47 74.44 79.69 4.97 5.25 10.22

Based the discussion above, the writer summarize that Picture
Sequence media was able to improve the students’ skill in writing
procedure text in SMP N 216 Jakarta. Here is the diagram to see the
clearer improvement:
The Improvement of Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and
Cycle II

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
PC-C I C I-C II PC-C II
Based on the analysis of the data in Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and
Cycle II test, the writer concluded as that;
 Using Picture Sequence Media can improve the students’
skill in writing procedure text in ninth graders of SMP Negeri
216 Jakarta in the school year 2017/208. It has reached the
minimum of achievement criterion of 78 and more than 75%
of the students get crore 78 in writing procedure text. The
improvement of students’ writing skill can be category from
fair categoty become good category.
For the Teacher The Students
 It is better for the English teacher  It is better for the students to
to use Picture Sequence as a improve their writing skill when
medianin teaching writing they applied picture sequence in
especially in writing procedure writing procedure text that they
text, as an alternative teaching learned. The students should be
madia to enggage the students’ active, creative and also have a
in learning English. The teacher good participation during the
should also stimulate the learning process.
students to be active and
interactive in English class.
THANK YOU