students’ writing skill in exploring their ideas and thinking to produce good English writing. Brainstorming techniques are expected to be able to overcome
writing problems including ideas, grammatical features, and organization of the paragraphs. Moreover, brainstorming techniques are also expected to be able to
increase students’ writing skills.
D. Formulation of the Problem
Based on the limitation of the study, the researcher formulates the problem of the study as follows: How could the Brainstorming technique be applied to
improve the Eighth Grade students’ writing ability at SMP N 1 Nanggulan
Kulonprogo?
E. Objective of the Study
Related to the formulation of the problem, this research aims at improving students’ writing ability by using the Brainstorming technique at SMP N 1
Nanggulan Kulonprogo.
F. Significance of the Study
In this study, the researchers expects that this research has the benefits both theory and practices. Theoretically, this study will be a useful reference
about the use of Brainstorming technique for others who want to write about this issue. Therefore, it is expected that the findings of this study may give
contribution to further understanding of the use of the Brainstorming technique to improve students’ writing ability especially in junior high schools.
Practically, the finding of the research may give benefits to the headmaster of SMP N 1 Nanggulan Kulonprogo, the English teachers, and the researcher. For
the headmaster, the results of the research are expected to be an input to make policy in improving the quality of the process of teaching and learning English.
For English teachers, the findings of the research provide such information to improve the quality of the teaching and learning process of writing and improve
students’ learning achievements.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
As the main objective of this study is to improve students‟ writing skill by using Brainstorming, some related theories are presented in this part. This
chapter discusses the theoretical description and conceptual framework related to writing skill and brainstorming technique. The followings are the discussions of
each item.
A. Theoretical Description
1. Writing
This section aims at discussing some points related to writing skills involving a broad area of interest. Those points are definitions of writing, types of
classroom writing performance, types of writing task, micro skills of writing, process of writing, teaching writing skill, principles of teaching writing, teaching
writing in Junior High School, and assessing writing.
a. Definition of Writing
Writing is one of the four basic skills in learning language. It should be mastered in using a language. As explained by Spratt, et.al. 2005:26, writing is
one of the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking which involves producing language rather than receiving it. Writing belongs to a
productive skill because it supports to produce writing product as a result. It also
