Subject of the Study

B. Subject of the Study

The study was conducted to the students of VIII-E SMP Negeri 3 Kartasura. This class was completed with 35 students’ chair, 18 students’ desk, a set of desk and chairs’ teacher, one big whiteboard, two small blackboards, and one small attendance whiteboard. There are also pictures of president, vice president, Garuda Pancasila, and a clock put on the wall. There are windows on both sides of the room which can be used as air circulation. There is some hero’s picture put on both side of the room above the windows. The teacher’s desk is also completed with a tablecloth, a vase and the flower. Class VIII-E consisted of 35 students including 22 boy students and 13 girl students. There are four lines students’ desks. The students choose their friends as a tablemate freely. Nevertheless, the students choose their tablemate friends in the same gender. Most students, 91 were from Kartasura and 9 students were from out of Kartasura. The students usually rode bicycle who came from Kartasura, but for those who came from out Kartasura, they usually rode public transportation or they have been picked up by their parents. There were 55 students from factory employee family, 30 students from farmer family, 10 from civil servant family, and 5 from private enterprise family. Psychologically, they were motivated students in learning especially in topic lesson and activities that they were interested in. They were also responsible students. According to the teacher, most students did the task when the teacher asked them although the result of their task was still far from the teacher expected. commit to users Based on the pre-test given to the students, the researcher summarized that this class had problem in writing skill. They got many difficulties in writing such as generating ideas, ungrammatical sentences, having lack of vocabulary, and organizing sentences. That was why the researcher conducted the classroom action research in order to solve the problems. In conducting the research, the researcher was not only as a teacher but also as an observer. In addition, the researcher was helped by the English teacher as one collaborator in controlling the students. Therefore, the research run well during teaching and learning process.

C. Research Method