IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH ENGLISH POEMS

Hayaturrohimi, Muhammad (2018) IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH ENGLISH POEMS. Jurnal Pendidikan Edutama, - (-). -. ISSN P-ISSN: 2339-2258 E-ISSN: 2548-821X (Submitted)

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Abstract The curriculum in Indonesia required students to be able to write some kinds of text like recount, narrative, report, procedure, descriptive and news item, etc. On this occasion, the writer interested in observing teaching writing of Vocational School, especially in writing descriptive text. On schools’ curriculum (KTSP), the students have to master some competences. First, students can describe objects, people, and characteristics, time, day, month and year. Second, words are assembled precisely to describe objects based on color, shape, origin, size, material, quantity and quality. And there are indicators of achievement of competences; the students can arrange words appropriately to describe objects based on color, shape, origin, size, material, quantity and quality.In my preliminary study in SMK AT-TANWIR assisted by the English teacher found that the students’ writing skill is still low. Some students thought that English is difficult, so they keep silent during the class. Only some students interacted in English teaching because they did not have a basic knowledge about English, especially grammar and vocabulary. These made them more difficult to like English lesson and created in their mindset that learns English is hard especially writing. Based on the reason above, the teacher tries to create some strategies to teaching writing. The writer believes that the best way to improve student’s writing skill is by English poems. The purpose of the study was to examine implementation of English Poems to improve the student's writing ability of Descriptive text. By using classroom action research, researcher get the data from questionnaires of 33 participants. The findings describe the improvement students writing ability through English poem. It can show from average of students’ writing skill were 57 in pre-test and 76 in post-test. The implication of this research give improvement students writing ability (content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, mechanics) through English poem (Cinquain, acrostic, diamante, and calligrams) Keywords: Writing ability; Descriptive text; English Poem

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