text. However, it is not easy for the teachers to apply cooperative leaning as the part of their teaching because of the limitation of their knowledge and experience
with cooperative learning.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The writer choose the topic based on the following reasons: 1
In School-Based Curriculum, the teaching learning process of English is based on genre text types. One of the most difficult text type to be mastered by
students is Hortatory Exposition Text. 2
Students are always interested in using different techniques to improve their skills because their teacher always use conventional way. Roundtable
technique is one of the techniques of Cooperative Learning Method to improve writing skill for the students.
3 Among the four skills, writing is considered to be the most difficult skill to
acquire. It is hard even to write in our native language. Therefore, the writer wants to find out whether teaching hortatory exposistion to students by using
roundtable technique will be useful for improving their writing skills, especially in writing hortatory exposistion text.
1.3 Research Questions
In this study, the writer limits the discussion by stating the problems: 1
How well does the roundtable technique give contribution to improve students‟ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text?
2 What problems do students of SMA N 1 Batang in applying roundtable
technique in writing hortatory exposition text?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are: 1
to investigate whether the roundtable technique gives contribution to improve s
tudents‟ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text. 2
to discover whether difficulties students of SMA N 1 Batang have in applying roundtable technique in writing hortatory exposition text.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Theoretically, this research is hoped to be able to give contribution to educational research development in Indonesia, especially in classroom action
research. Practically, the result of this research is hoped to give benefit for teachers
to improve methods and strategies in writing learning program. For school, the result of this research is hoped to be able to be used as
reference material in conducting writing lesson in the future. In addition, by conducting this research, school can complete tools and infrastuctures to support
student s‟ writing skill development.
For institution, the result of this research can increase the list of references in university, especially for English Department.
1.6 Limitation of the Study
