students and also can encourage the students’ motivation in learning English. The appropriate media is realia.
Realia in this research was used as media in teaching descriptive text writing. The procedures of using realia in teaching writing are explained in the
following part. 1.
The teacher chooses the topic based on the curriculum for the eighth grade students of junior high school.
2. The teacher prepares the realia as the media in teaching descriptive text
writing. 3.
The teacher gives explanation about descriptive text. 4.
The teacher distributes realia to the students. 5.
The teacher let her students to mention the characteristic of realia. 6.
The students begin to write sentences based on the realia given. 7.
The students begin to write the description into good text related with the realia.
8. Revising the students’ work.
Based on the explanation above, the researcher concludes that realia is appropriate teaching aid in teaching writing descriptive text, because first, it helps
to make English lesson memorable. Second, it also takes concentrating the students’ mind on the object. Third, it will generate interest and help create an
atmosphere conducive to learning.
2.8 Action Hypothesis
Based on the literature review above and the research problem, the hypotheses of this action research are formulated as follows:
1. The use of rea
lia can improve the eighth grade students’ active participation in the teaching learning process of descriptive text writing achievement by
using realia at SMPN 1 Besuki Situbondo. 2.
The use of realia can improve the eighth grade students’ writing achievement in descriptive text by using realia at SMPN 1 Besuki
Situbondo.
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METHOD
This chapter presents the method used in this research. It is divided into five parts; research design, area determination method, subject determination
method, data collection method, research procedure, and data analysis method.
3.1 Research Design
The design of the research was Classroom Action Research CAR because it was intended to improve class
VIII D students’ writing achievement in writing descriptive text by using realia at SMPN 1 Besuki Situbondo. Fraenkel and
Wallen 2009:589 argue that action research is conducted by one or more individuals or groups for the purpose of solving a problem or obtaining
information in order to inform local practice. In addition, Arikunto 2006:93 states that a classroom action research is an approach to improve the quality of
teaching learning process. It means that classroom action research is intended to improve the quality of teaching learning process and it helps solving the
classroom problem. In this research, it was concerned with the students’ problem
in writing descriptive text and it could be solved by using realia as a teaching aid at SMPN 1 Besuki Situbondo.
This research was conducted collaboratively with the English teacher of the eighth grades at SMPN 1 Besuki Situbondo. This classroom action research
was conducted in some stages in each cycle. They are 1 the planning of the action, 2 the implementation of the action, 3 classroom observation and 4
reflection of the action Lewin in Elliot, 1991:69. In planning of the action, the researcher prepared instructional material and constructed lesson plan. Then, the
researcher applied the lesson plan and instructional material in the classroom as an implementation of the action and while teaching and learning process. Both the
teacher and observer watched the circumstances of the classroom. They also evaluated the result of the observation. Reflection was used to answer the research
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