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what to write. In organizing the texts, they did not make introduction or they just made the introduction and very limited events there. They were just able
to make simple sentences and repeated the same words in their stories. The students‟ vocabulary mastery was also very low, thus they found it difficult in
choosing the right words for their sentences. The last was punctuation. Lots of the students were indecent to pay attention to it and to spelling as well.
Third, the technique used in the classroom was almost the same from time to time. The teacher did not use any new innovative techniques in her
teaching and learning processes. This caused the students to easily get bored with the activities done in the classroom. As the result, their writing products
were not satisfying yet. In reference to the explanation given above, this particular research
was conducted to improve students‟ ability in writing skills especially writing fluency of the class X-C students of SMA N 5 Magelang by the use of
dialogue journal. It was expected to make some changes that could give benefits on the students‟ writing skill to achieve the target in the teaching and
learning process.
C. Delimitation of the Problem
According to the problems faced by the students of class X-C of SMA N 5 Magelang in the English teaching and learning process, the researcher has
decided to focus only on the efforts on the problems related to how to improve
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the students‟ writing fluency. The researcher proposed to apply the dialogue journal technique to solve this problem.
Some advantages by applying this technique are providing the students with more opportunities to write; facilitating them to express what
they feel freely and without any hesitation; and enabling them to enrich their vocabulary mastery. These advantages could help them improve their writing
fluency.
D. Formulation of the Problem
Based on the explanation of the problems as stated earlier in the identification and delimitation of the problems above, the problem could be
formulated in the following question, „How can the dialogue journal be used to improve the students‟ writing fluency of class X-C students of SMA N 5
Magelang?‟
E. Objectives of the Study
Corresponding to the formulation of the problem, the research objective is aimed at improving the students‟ writing fluency of class X-C
students through the use of the dialogue journal technique.
F. Significance of the Study
It is hoped that this research will give benefits to the following parties.
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1. The teachers of English especially the English teachers of SMA N 5 Magelang.
The research is aimed at giving a new alternative way of teaching for English teachers. It is hoped that the finding of this research can be
used to improve the quality of teaching and learning processes especially in writing fluency.
2. The tenth grade students of SMA N 5 Magelang. By using the dialogue journal technique, it is hoped that especially the
students of SMA N 5 Magelang class X-C will not get difficult to write everything and can improve their ability in writing fluency.
Furthermore, the implementation of dialogue journal writing can be performed by themselves after the research ended and as a way for
them to find their interests in writing English. 3. The students of English Education Department of Yogyakarta State
University. The finding of this study is hoped to be considered as a beneficial
reading material to enrich their reference in writing their thesis related to the topic of writing fluency and the use of the dialogue journal
technique to improve writing fluency. 4. Other researchers.
It can inspire other researchers to conduct further studies on the use of the dialogue journal to improve the students‟ writing fluency. The
dialogue journal technique is appropriate to be implemented at any
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level of education, not only for senior high school students, but also for junior high school students. Various ways can be used in applying the
dialogue journal technique, so the other researchers can modify the ways in applying it based on their interests.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
