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6. The Students in Class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta Academic Year
20152016
The students of class 8A of SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta Academic Year 20152016 are the most cooperative students from the other eighth grader students
in SMP BOPKRI 1 Yogyakarta. There are thirty 30 students consisting of sixteen 16 male students and fourteen 14 female students. Based on the
teaching practice, the students have better speaking, listening and reading skills than writing skills. The students should learn to develop their writing skills.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
In this chapter, the researcher would like to discuss theories related to the study. This chapter includes the theoretical description and theoretical framework.
The theoretical description presents the discussion of any literature related to and the
students‟ responses to writing skills, metacognitive learning strategies, and writing recount texts using metacognitive lerning strategy. The theoretical
framework summaries all relevant theories, which help the researcher solves the research problems.
A. Theoretical Description
In this theoretical description, the researcher would like to discuss the theories which are related to the research issue. The researcher limits the theories from
three specific theoretical descriptions. They are the students‟ responses to writing skills, metacognitive learning strategies and writing recount texts using
metacognitive learning strategies.
1. The Students’ Responses to Writing Skills
According to Knoblauch and Brannon 2015, students‟ response is any verbal or non-verbal act which is designed for students to fulfil the expectations
implicit in the questions, commands or request of others. From the definition which is explained, it can be deduced
that the students‟ responses to writing skills can be defined as any verbal or non-verbal act produced in answer to their writing.
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