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performance on content, organization, and vocabulary. It also reduced their writing anxiety.
H. Conceptual Framework
Writing is considered as an important skill to master as it is due to the students‟ learning achievement towards English lessons. The writing process
involves thinking skill, creative skill and some tight rules. One of the tight rules is fluency. Fluency does not only happen in speaking skill but also in
writing as well. Writing fluency means to write fluently without getting any troubles when the students are in the middle of their writing activity.
Whereas, the fact shows us that the students find it difficult to write fluently. Some obstacles dealing with finding the idea of what to write, how to write,
word choice, grammatical features make them difficult to produce a good writing product.
Writing fluency concerns for both the quality and quantity of writing. It is not merely about the total of words that are produced in one text but also
how well the text is organized. That is why fluency in writing needs very good understanding of accuracy aspects such as grammatical features and
writing mechanics. Their low writing fluency is caused by some factors related to the
teacher, the activities done in the classroom and the technique in the teaching and learning process. The teacher mostly used the traditional way of teaching,
therefore the students get bored more often. As the solution, the researcher
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proposes another way to improve the students‟ writing fluency that is by using the dialogue journal. This technique is chosen based on a consideration
that the dialogue journal can provide the students with more relaxed writing practice opportunities which later can lead them to be more fluent in writing.
Moreover, by expressing their ideas freely on the dialogue journal, they are expected to be confident in writing and also they will enrich their vocabulary.
It is hoped that this technique can help the students improve their understanding of grammatical rules, become aware of writing mechanics and
increase their vocabulary. In addition, it is expected that by implementing the dialogue journal regularly in the language teaching and learning process in
the classroom, not only the students‟ writing fluency will raise but also their motivation and positive attitude towards writing.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of the Research
This research is an action research study which aimed to identify a „problematic‟ situation or issue and deliberate way in that situation in order to
bring about changes and improvements in practice Burns, 2010: 2. It is not merely about why we do such a thing in particular, but it is rather to find a
solution on how we could do things better. Burns 2009: 9 proposes Kemmis McTaggart 1988 chart
representing the action research cycle as follows.
Figure 1: Cyclical AR Model Proposed by Kemmis and McTaggrat
Ways on doing action research in the teaching and learning process was begun from determining some plans on the actions that would be
performed later. After that, the actions were implemented along with the role of the collaborator to observe the situation during the teaching and learning
process. The last was making reflection in which the researcher and the
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