27 Imaginative recount is a recount that taking on animaginary
role and giving details events e.g. a day in the life of aRoman Slave: how I invited…
d. How to Teach Recount Texts Through TAD Strategy
Steps of implementing TAD strategy were also collaborated with the process wheel planning, drafting, editing, final
version by Harmer 2004:4-6. According to Harmer 2004:99- 100, the whole procedure illustrated as follows:
1 Planning Firstly, teacher will divide students in groups and ask
them to talk about their personal experiences in the past. Then, they will be asked
to discuss about freewritinga type of writing where students freed to
write or keep writing what they want to write. The next activities, teacher will gives
explanation about Transition-Action Details T-A-D Writing Strategy and
elaborate some samples of the experiences in the past and the discussion about freewriting.
2 Drafting The students create and develop their own experiences
into a recount text paragraph by using Transition-Action- Details T-A-D Writing Strategy.
3 Editing
28 In this part, the students will be involved in a discussion
where everybody has to read and give comments about recount texts they written.
4 Final Version In the final drafting, students will continue the activity
to revise their work in another draft. After checked their works personally, the student finally will have their
good recount text.
B. Relevant Study
David Marpaung, Rumiri Aruan and Syafri K 2011 did a study through TAD strategy in teaching writing. They had found three results of the
research. The first result is that students’ ability in constructing texts could improve by using the TAD strategy. The second finding is that the
TAD strategy showed the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. It could improve their motivation and passion to learn English
writing. They were found easier to produce their texts. The last result is that the cooperative learning among them could also improve by using
the TAD strategy. They got more chances to participate. They realized that they had responsibility and confidence when exploring their writing
skills.
C. Conceptual Framework
Writing as one of the productive skills has a process which consists of some stages which include planning, drafting, editing, and final
