1.5 Scope of the Research
The researcher focused the research on using of Peer Correction for teaching writing recount text. Thus, the focus of the research was on finding out the
increase of the students in writing of recount text after the students are taught through Peer Correction. In this research, the learning material was focused in
writing recount text. The research was conducted to the first grade students of SMA N 5 Bandar Lampung in academic year 20122013. The researcher took one
class as the sample. The class is X 6 consisting of 30 students.The scope of writing skills consists of content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and
mechanics Jacobs et al 1981:90.
1.6 Definition of Terms
Writing
Writing is a skill in which we express the ideas, and thought arranged in words, sentences, and paragraphs using eyes, brain, and hand. Raimes 1983:76
Text
Text is a semantic unit that is realized in the form of word, clause, and sentence. Derewianka1992:17
Recount text
Recount text is a text is one of the texts that recalls and reconstruct events,experiences and achievements from from the past in a logical sequence.
Derewianka 1990
Peer Correction
Peer correction is a part of a larger category of educational activity in which
students work together in a group. Jacobs 1989:68
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter provides explanation related theories used in this study, they are concept of writing, teaching of writing, the concept of peer correction, the benefit
of peer correction, recount text, teaching of recount text, the use of peer correction in teaching recount text, the procedure of teaching recount text through peer
correction, advantages and disadvantages of peer correction, theoretical assumption and the hypothesis.
2.1 Concept of Writing
Writing is a productive skill that enables the people to write their ideas based on
the structures of the text. Therefore, writing is used to communicate ideas, thought in written form. There have been several experts who reveal the definition of
writing. Linderman 1982:11 defines writing as a process of communication which uses a
conventional graphic system to convey a message to a reader. It means that writing is process of sending the message by using letters, punctuation, words or
sentences as a graphic system. Thus the process of communication can be said successful if the reader and the writer understand the language being used in
written communication. Raimes 1983:3 point out that writing reinforces the
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