Verb Noun
Spread Heat
Pour Crack
Peel Water
Egg Onion
Oil Jam
The following are examples of combining words exercise:
Boil the water for several minutes. Chop the onion into small pieces.
Pour the water into a cup. Place fried rice on the plate.
Stir all the ingredient carefully. Mix together all the ingredients.
B. Previous Study
1. The first study is the research from Malinda Prawati, et al titled
Teaching Writing Procedure Text Through Demonstration. This study is the experimental
study with pre-test and post-test as instrument.They used demonstration to teach students writing procedure texts and has the result that demonstration has high
significant effect to incr ease students’ achievement of writing skill on procedure
text. The difference between this study and the writer’s study is the writer does
not use demonstration but uses collocation instruction in increasing students’
writing skill on procedure text with the same experimental method and pre-test and post-test instrument.
2. The second study is focus on using collocation instruction to
developstudents’ writing skill. This study is a part of 2013 International Journal of Language Learning and Applied LinguisticsWorld. It is titled
The Impact of Lexical Collocation Instructionon Developing Writing Skill Among Iranian EFL Learners
by Fatemeh Eidian, et al. This is an experimental study which has experimental and control groups with pre-test and post-
test as an instrument using university students as sample population. The result of this study showed that lexical collocation can develop students’
writing skill. The differences between this study a nd the writer’s study is
the writer study uses junior high school students as sample population and it does not measure writing skill generally, but only one type of writing
which is procedure texts with recipes as genre specification.
C. Conceptual Framework
Students can use the grammatical features, generic structure, and vocabularies that have been given to express their ideas in written text. Procedure text is one of the
types of written texts that students learned. Procedure text is the text that tells how to do or how to make something. Writing procedure text becomes one of English
materials in grade VII students syllabus. The purpose of learning procedure text based on the syllabus is to make students able to produce their own simple procedure text
accurately, fluency, and acceptably. Procedure text tells the action should be done for making something, and the way verbs action work with nouns object of action is
definitely crucial. However, students often confuse to arrange procedure text because they do not know the key words, such as verbs and nouns, which become important
for their writing. They often have problem to combine those words and connect them for constructing the text.
The writer considered about using collocation instruction in procedure text writing. Collocations are important because they will make students think about multi
word and reduce their confusion in arranging text. It can make students recognise the pattern of certain words combination in an appropriate way. Collocation instruction
that used by writer in writing procedure text means giving combination of free collocation of verb+noun, verb+adverb, and verb+preposition in learning procedure
text. It is necessary because the ability of students to identify the verbs in the text with comparing the verbs with the nouns and also identify adverbs are required in
constructing procedure text. The writer expected that collocation instruction will make students easier to construct a simple procedure text writing particularly in
genre of recipes.
D. Research Hypothesis
Collocation instruction will have an effect to improve students ’ writing
procedure text because students will not use word as a single isolation but use words as a group. It can reduce students confusion in arranging text because they can
combine words since the ability of students to identify the verbs in the text with comparing the verbs with the nouns and also identify adverbs are required in
constructing procedure text.
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHDOLOGY
This chapter consists of the explanation about place and time of the study, method and design of the study, population and sample, data collection, scoring
rubric, data analysis, and hypothesis statistics.
A. Place and Time of the Study
This study conducted at SMP Islamiyah Ciputat. This study held from 8
th
of April to 29
th
of April. The writer gave the treatment in academic year 20142015.
The Schedule of the Study No
Task Preparation
Time 1.
Preliminary visit Permission Letter
Monday, 31
th
of March 2015
2. Communicate
with the
headmaster and
English Teacher
Permission Letter Wednesday,
1
st
of April 2015
3. Pre-test
Pre test Wednesday,
8
th
of April 2015
4. Treatment
Lesson Plan, Handbook,
Worksheet, Teaching Materials
The day of treatment of Experimental and
Controlled Class
5. Post-test
Post test Wednesday, 29
th
of April 2015
