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P : “Trimakasih, Bu. Begini, saya mau tanya masalah siswa kelas VIII E. Kira-kira menurut ibu seberapa jauh kemampuan mereka dalam bahasa Inggris terutama untuk skill writing”Thank you, Ma’am. So, I want to ask you about the students of class VIII E. In your opinion, how far their ability in English, especially in writing skill. GBI : “Oh ya..kalau menurut saya, kelas VIII E ini termauk kelas yang agak mendingan dari pada kelas-kelas F,G,H, dan seterusnya itu. Tapi kalau dalam menulis bahasa Inggris kemampuan mereka itu masih kurang. Soalnya menulis kan agak susah ya mbak, jadi ya itu .”In my opinion, class VIII E belongs to a good class rather than class F, G, H, and so on. However, their ability in writing is still low. It is because writing is considered as a hard skill. P : “Kira -kira metode mereka dalam menulis teks itu bagaimana ya Bu?”What method did they use in writing a text? GBI : “Ya biasanya kan kalo menulis saya ajarkan dulu teksnya. Jadi belajar reading dulu, nanti kalau sudah bisa baru saya ajarkan writing nya. Biasanya saya kasih contoh teks sebelum mereka menulis.” When we are going to write a text, I taught them the text first. So, we learned reading skill first, and then after that I taught the writing one. Usually, I gave them the example of the text before they write it. P : “Oh..begitu ya Bu? Hasil dari mereka menulis itu bagaiaman Bu?” Is that so? How about the result of their writing? GBI : “Kalau hasilnya kadang itu mereka kurang ini, kosataka. Yaa..vocab mereka masih kurang, jadi ya terkadang mereka bingung bagaimana menuliskanya. Dan terkadang ya itu..mereka cuma mengcopy teks yang sudah ada di buku.”Sometimes their result was not really good. Their vocabulary mastery is still low, so sometimes they get confuse how to write it in English. And sometimes they just copy and paste the text that already written in the book. P : “Terus, kalau masalah grammar bagaimana? Apakah sudah cukup baik apa belum?”What about their grammar mastery? Are they good enough or not? GBI : “Ada beberapa anak yang memang grammarnya sudah bagus, tapi untuk sebagian besar masih sedikit acak-acakan. Sama spelling nya terkadang itu kurang bener.”There are a few students who good enough in grammar, but most of them are still not good. Their word spelling is also not right yet. P : “Kalau untuk kond isi siswa di kelas bagaimana Bu? Apa mereka From the interview transcripts between the researcher and the teacher above, the researcher found some problems. They are: 1. The students were less enthusiastic and easily got bored in learning English especially writing. 2. The students got confused when they started their writing. 3. The students had no idea about the topic of their writing. 4. The students had difficulties in using the proper grammar. 5. The students were not able to arrange the sentences in order correctly. 6. The students were not accurate in using spelling and capitalization. 7. The students have low motivation in writing Besides the interview from the teacher, the researcher also conducted the interview to the students. Based on the interview to the students, the researcher found that the ability of the students in writing is still low. The reason was because they did not have motivation in writing and they did not have much time to practice writing. Besides that, based on the interview to the students, they said that they have some problems in using tenses they should have to use, grammar especially in using verb 2, and vocabulary mastery. They also had a problem in starting their writing. It means that they were still difficult in finding the idea or topic they are going to write. That problem was exemplified on the following interview transcript. P : “ Dek, kamu suka bahasa Inggris nggak? Trus suka nggak kalau disuruh nulis dalam Bahasa Inggris?”Do you like English? Do you like to write a text in English? S 1 :”Suka Bahasa Inggris sih, tapi kalau nulis agak susah e mbak.”I like English, but I feel difficult when I had to write in English. P : “Susahnya kenapa?” What are the difficulties? S 1 : “Apa ya…kadang tuh katanya nggak ngerti.” Sometimes I do not know the words in English. P : “ Kira -kira kalo dalam pelajaran Bahasa Inggris, kamu yang paling susah kalau disusruh ngapain?” In learning English, what is the most difficult thing that you have to do? S 2 : “Kalo ngomong sama nulis mbak”When I have to speak and write. P : “Kalo dalam menulis itu susahnya apa kir a- kira?”What is your problem in writing? S 2 : “Ya itu..soalnya kan ngomongnya kan ribet gitu mbak..jadi nulisnya ya ribet juga, bikin pusing. It is because the pronunciation is so confusing, so the spelling is also difficult. It makes me confuse. P : “K alo kamu disuruh menulis itu susah nggak kalau disuruh cari ide?”When you have to write in English, is it difficult to find the topic? S 2 : “Susah mbak.”It is difficult. Interview 4 P : “ Dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris di kelas kendala-kendalanya apa Dek?”What is your problem in learning English in the class room? S 3 :”Kadang itu nggak konsen lho mbak.”Sometimes I feel hard to concentrate. P : “Lha nggak konsenya kenapa?”Why do you feel hard? S 3 : “Lha pada rebut sendiri e. Brisik banget di kelas. Trus saya nggak memperhatikan.” The students are very noisy. And then I do not pay attention. Before conducting the action, the researcher administered a test to find out the ability of the students in writing. The students were asked to write a recount text about their own experience. From the result of the test, it showed that the students ’ scores were varied. The mean of their test score was 53.03 . The table below presents the students’ scores in details. Table 3: The Students’ Writing Score in the Pretest Score Category Frequency Interpretation Total Percentage 87.5 – 100 Excellent Good 3 9.10 75 – 87.4 Very good 1 62.5 – 74.9 Good 2 50 – 62.4 Fair 21 Poor 30 90.90 37.5 – 49.9 Poor 9 25 – 37.4 Very poor Mean 53.03 The result indicated that the students’ score did not meet the expectation yet according to the standard score of the school and the curriculum applied. After the problems were collected from the interviews, observations, and students’ test