sentences, or paragraphs to students and the teacher will then ask them to rewrite or retell what they have heard by their own words.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
Some reasons why I choose “The Use of Running Dictation Technique to Improve Studen
ts‟ Writing in Descriptive Text” are as the following:
1 There are many difficulties in writing faced by students, such as having
trouble when they have to start writing, lacking the ideas or examples when writing, and having not enough time to finish the essay.
2 Writing skill is useful not only for learning English but also for writing
in other languages. However, in writing the students often get difficulties in what they are going to write.
3 Writing is the most difficult skill to master because it involves three
other skills such as listening, speaking, and reading, all knowledge of the writers, a lot of practices, and a good motivation to be able to write
well. 4
Descriptive text is an interesting text because it describes particular things, persons, places, organizations, or activities that need students‟
ability to use their brainstorming to express their ideas and descriptions of their particular things. Therefore, by creating a descriptive text,
students can improve their ability in writing. Without realizing, they have applied six steps of writing, such as assessing the assignment,
generating ideas, organizing ideas, writing the first draft, rewriting, and
writing the final draft. Each step can help students to develop paragraphs.
5 Running Dictation is a fun technique to improve students‟ writing
ability. This technique is also done of six writing steps from assessing the assignment, generating ideas, organizing ideas, writing the first draft,
rewriting, and writing the final draft. Those six steps will be more interesting and easily to practice with this technique.
1.3 Research Questions
Based on the background presented above, I want to find out how running dictation improves students‟ writing skill in descriptive text. Due to that
reason, this study attempts to provide the answers of the following questions: 1
How does running dictation technique improve students‟ writing ability of descriptive text?
2 How is the students ‟ response in writing descriptive text using
running dictation technique?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
