Mendikbud 2013 is appropriate to be used in this research since it serves connecting and continuing activities that let the students take apart actively
especially in teaching writing. These steps also seem interesting since it used another media as like pictures. The steps include: 1 Stimulation. In this step, the
students are given the stimulation as like question and picture. It will help students in introducing the subject, 2 Problem Statement. In this step, the students are
given the opportunity to decide their own topic based on their own past experience, 3 Data Collection. The students are asked to make a draft about their
past experience. It will help them to develop their ability in organization, content, and vocabulary, 4 Data Processing. The concepts and theory that the students
have already got from the previous step will be processed here. Processing means calculating, classifying, tabulating, the concepts and theory. to process their free
writing becomes a draft. Process here means classified which sentence is able to be developed and which one is unable, 5 Verification. The teacher gives the
materials and example about recounts text to each of the student. Then, the teacher asks students to observe and study by themselves. By this step, the students have
experience in discovering the concept, theory and rule by themselves, and 5 Generalization. The students draw the conclusion about recount text and ready
used their own finding to develop their draft into a text or paragraphs.
6. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Discovery Learning
a. The advantages of Discovery Learning
In general, Discovery Learning method may have several advantages asproposed by Mendikbud 2013. They are as follows:
1 Helping students to improve and enhance the writing skills and cognitive
processes 2
The knowledge gained through these methods is very personal and powerful because can strengthen the understanding and retention
3 This method allows the students develop rapidly and in accordance with own
pace. 4
Helping the students to direct their own learning activities involving their wits and their own motivation. It will improve their grammar and vocabulary in
writing. 5
This method can help students reinforce the concept of writing skill itself, because they have a confidence in collaboration with others.
6 This method is centered on students and teachers alike participate actively
state the ideas. Even the teachers can act as a student, and as a researcher in the discussion part.
7 Helping students to overcome skepticism because the discovery learning
leads to final and certain truths. 8
Students will understand the basic concepts of writing and ideas well so that it will improve their organization and content in writing.
9 Encouraging students to think and formulate their own hypotheses
10 Providing decisions that are intrinsic.
11 Learning situation becomes more aroused.
12 Increasing the level of awards to the students so that it will improve the
students’ mechanic skill in writing.
13 Students learn to utilize various types of learning resources.
14 It can develop their individual talents and skills.
The other advantages are also stated by Mu rphy, Malloy, and O’Brien
2010 as follows:
1 Highly Motivating
a Students are engaged actively in the learning process.
b They are responsible for their own successes and failures.
c They have something at stake.
2 Problem Solving
a It fosters the growth of problem solving and creative skills.
b It is similar to on-job learning that will occur as adults.
c It instills lifelong learning skills
3 Personalization
a The learning experience is tailored to each child.
b It gives the students autonomy and independence.
4 Developing an Interest in Learning
a Students discover their own ways of learning.
b Students must utilize their own prior knowledge and understanding.
c Develops curiosity.
5 Memory
a Students may be more likely to retain the information if they learn it on
their own terms.
b When they learn the information in context, they may be more likely to
remember it than if they are taught from a textbook exclusively. Related to the teaching writing, Discovery Learning method has some
advantages as proposed by Hanafi and Suhana 2009, 79. They are as follows: 1
Student learn how to write through a process of discovery 2
Assisting learners to elaborate readiness, as well as mastery of writing skills in the cognitive process
3 Learners acquire knowledge related to write a text so that it can be
understood individually and settles in his mind 4
Method of discovery excites students in learning the concepts of writing. 5
Discovery learning method allows learners to move forward according to its own abilities
6 Strengthen and increasing the self confidence since the learning process
tends to the students centered with a very limited role of the teacher. The teacher is a facilitator of learning or friend.
b. The Disadvantages of Discovery Learning
