IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE

Astutik, Yeyen Puji (2018) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE. Jurnal Pendidikan Edutama, - (-). -. ISSN P-ISSN: 2339-2258 E-ISSN: 2548-821X (Submitted)

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Abstract

Abstract Writing is one of four English Skills besides listening, speaking, and reading. Writing is about expressing the ideas into sentences or paragraph. However, it needs ability to express the ideas. Writing tends to be a difficult subject for most of Indonesian students. This problem was also faced by class X Social 4 students of SMA Negeri 1 Baureno. The students’ writing achievement was categorized as poor. To reduce the anxiety, it is necessary that the researcher use an entertaining and fun activities, one of which is Running Dictation Technique. This study aims to find out how Running Dictation Technique can improve students’ writing ability of narrative text and to find out how students writing ability of narrative text after the implementation of Running Dictation Technique. By using classroom action research, the researchers get the data from interviewing the English teacher, tests and questionnaires that shared to the students. Before conducting Running Dictation Technique, the mean of students’ score in pre-assessment test just 66.4705. After being treated by using Running Dictation Technique students’ score in writing skill goes up to 80.1470. The implication of this research gives significant improvement in teaching learning process by using running dictation technique, the students became confident in expressing their ideas when wrote English text. Keywords: running dictation, writing, narrative text

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