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Analysis of the Pre-test

65 The average score the third activity = ∑Students’ Score X 100 ∑ Students = ∑ 1731 X 100 ∑ 21 = 82. 43

4.2 Discussion

4.2.1 Analysis of the Pre-test

A pre-test was conducted by the teacher and the writer at the beginning of the study. The purpose of giving the pre-test was to check the students’ ability in writing descriptive text and to identify the students’ writing quality based on five categories given, those were: content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. Before the pre-test, the English teacher of the class introduced the writer to the students. The pre-test was taken by 21 students on October 19 th 2010. In this activity the writer at first asked the students whether they wanted to travel somewhere around Indonesia or not. The students were very enthusiastic to answer and replied, “Yes, I Want” The writer then mentions several examples of tourist places such as: Wonderia, Tugu Muda Monument, and Lawang Sewu. Afterward, The students were asked to choose a tourist place in Indonesia that they want to visit. They got approximately 5 minutes to make a decision. After 5 minutes, each 66 student picked the place they want to visit. Then, the writer asked each student to write on a piece of paper three reasons why they prefer to visit the tourist destination. Then the writer asked the students to write a descriptive text about their favorite tourist destination. The writer gave 45 minutes intended for the students to finish their writing. During the writing process the students were told to work individually. After they finished writing the descriptive text, the students submitted their paper. The students’ achievement average on the pre-test was 64.82 . It was lower than the SMA Nasima standard competence for English Language lesson, which states that 75 is required to pass. Therefore, it could be concluded that the students’ pre-test achievement was below the standard competence of SMA Nasima. There were two specific areas that the students need to improve those were: Content and Mechanic. In term of content, the average pre-test was 17.8 which was considered as “fair to poor”. In addition, in term of mechanics, the average pre-test score was 1.76 which was also considered as “fair to poor”.For this reason, the writer conducted the action of improving students’ performance in writing descriptive text.

4.2.2 The Analysis of the First Cycle

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