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
The objectives of the study are:
1 to find out how running dictation technique improves the students‟
writing ability of descriptive text, and 2
to find out students‟ responses in writing descriptive text using running dictation technique.
1.5 Significance of the Study The results of the study are expected to give the following benefits:
1 For the students, writing descriptive text using running dictation
technique will hopefully influence their responses toward English lesson especially in writing descriptive text.
2 For the teachers, it will hopefully give them a better way in teaching
writing descriptive text for their students by using running dictation technique.
3 For the writer, by conducting this study, I can practice using running
dictation to teach writing descriptive text. 4
For the readers, it will be good reference for readers who concern about modern technique in teaching writing, especially descriptive text.
1.6 Outline of the Study
This study is divided into five chapters and systemized as follows: Chapter I shows the background of the study, reasons for choosing
the topic, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, significances of the study, and outline of the study.
Chapter II provides the review of related literature. It describes the theories used in developing the study. It involves review of previous studies
and review of theoretical background which contains writing, teaching writing, the teacher in teaching writing, integrated-skill approach, English
text type, and narrative text. The last part of Chapter II is the framework of analysis.
Chapter III concerns in the method of investigation. It gives the description of the research design, the detail of the research, the subject of
the study, the role of the researcher, instruments of the study, procedure of collecting the data, procedure of data analysis, and scoring criteria.
Chapter IV shows the data analysis and discussion. Chapter V provides conclusion of the study. It consists of conclusions
and suggestions.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
