purpose of groupwork is to provide opportunities for each student to become actively involved in the thinking task at hand and thereby increase their learning.
In this paper, the writer uses Team Pairs Solo to support the study tour method to increase the learning activity. After the students write some notes after
doing study tour, they are divided into some groups consist of four students, so they can share their ideas each other.
This strategy has a purpose, which is to complete their information before they make a real report of something that they have described. The writer will
divide students based on the similarities of their topic. It can help them to enrich their vocabularies.
2.7.1 Stages in Study Tour Method
This technique or method can be effective to increase English learning process, especially in writing descriptive text. It is the same with other method or strategy,
in doing study tour method teachers should follow some steps. According to Roestiyah 2001:85 the teacher must pay attention of some steps, there are:
1 Preparation
Roestiyah 2001:85 states that ―teacher must decide the purpose of learning
clearly, consider the technique which is chosen, call the leader of tour places to negotiate everything, make a good plan, and distribution of students, and
prepare facilities of them‖. It means that teacher should have a good plan before them doing the method. Teacher should prepare everything before
the method was done.
2 Realization
Roestiyah 2001:85 argues that ―after determining the plan, teacher and
students can doing the method‖. The leader and all of the crew teachers and workers of the objects must be responsible with their jobs.
3 Report
Students discuss the result of their observation with their friends to get the complete information. For the final they must submit the report which
concludes everything Roestiyah, 2001:85. It means that after gathering the data in the observation, students should make a report about their activities.
The students must report their observation in written text not in a spoken text because it will be easier to express their ideas in writing. Besides that, the
writer focuses on writing skill. By using study tour method, hopefully the students can get a lot of ideas, and they can write down what they will describe. Haycraft
1978:97 proposes that ―in a language learning a teacher is suggested to give
much practice in teaching English to object or things ‖. Therefore the writer will
invite the students to an interesting place, and she will ask them to describe that place or any objects in that place to make a descriptive text.
2.7.2 Advantages of Study Tour Method