participants. It means that active participants were more than 70 from the total number of VIII-D
students. It could be concluded that the students’ participation in Cycle 2 had
achieved the criteria success of the students’ participation that was at least 70.
The research results ab ove proved that the students’ participation
during the teaching learning process of writing achievement could be improved by using realia.
4.2.3 The Result of the Students’ Writing Test in Cycle 2
The writing test was given to measure the students’ ability in writing a descriptive text. It was conducted on Thursday April 9
th
, 2015. In this test, the researcher distributed the realia of mangosteen to each student. Then, the
researcher asked the students to write a descriptive text related to the realia by using their own words. The students were asked to write down a descriptive text
consisted of identification and description with the theme is mangosteen. The time allocation for the test was 40 minutes. There were two raters; the researcher rater
1 and the English teacher rater 2 scored the students’ writing result. The result of the s
tudents’ writing test in cycle 2 is presented in the following table.
Table 4.8 The Result of the Students’ Writing Test Cycle 2
N O
Name The student’s writing score
Achievement Rater1
Rater 2 Ave
rage Score
70 Score
≥70 C O V G M
N C O V G M
N
1 ADEA
5 5
5 3
4 88
5 5
5 4
3 84
86 √
2 AFA
5 3
4 3
2 68
5 4
3 3
3 68
68 √
3 AH
4 5
4 2
3 64
5 4
4 2
2 68
66 √
4 AF
5 5
5 3
5 92
5 5
5 4
4 92
92 √
5 AI
5 5
5 3
4 88
5 5
5 3
3 84
86 √
6 DER
5 5
5 5
4 96
5 5
5 5
3 92
94 √
7 DFAV
5 5
5 5
4 96
5 5
4 5
4 92
94 √
8 DFAY
5 5
3 3
4 80
5 5
4 3
3 80
80 √
9 DIR
3 4
4 3
3 68
3 4
3 2
1 64
66 √
10 HK 5
5 5
3 3
84 5
5 4
3 3
80 82
√ 11 H
5 5
4 3
4 84
5 5
3 3
4 80
82 √
12 IRHA 5
5 5
4 4
92 5
5 5
4 5
96 94
√ 13 JS
5 4
5 5
5 96
5 5
5 4
5 96
96 √
14 JP 5
5 5
3 3
84 5
5 4
3 3
80 82
√ 15 MRH
4 2
5 3
3 68
5 2
3 3
3 64
66 √
16 MAR 5
5 5
3 2
80 5
4 5
3 3
80 80
√ 17 MR
5 5
5 3
3 84
5 5
5 3
2 80
82 √
18 MMI 4
5 5
3 3
80 4
4 5
2 3
72 76
√ 19 MTR
5 2
4 2
3 64
5 3
3 2
4 68
66 √
20 MV 5
5 5
2 3
80 5
5 5
3 3
84 82
√ 21 NASS
5 5
5 3
3 84
5 5
5 5
2 88
86 √
22 N 5
5 5
3 3
84 5
5 5
4 5
88 86
√ 23 RR
5 5
5 3
4 88
5 5
5 3
3 84
86 √
24 RAP 5
4 3
3 5
80 5
5 3
3 5
84 82
√ 25 SW
5 5
5 3
2 80
5 5
5 2
2 76
78 √
26 SSA 5
5 5
3 4
88 5
5 5
4 3
88 88
√ 27 SR
5 5
5 5
4 92
5 5
5 4
4 96
94 √
28 SS 5
5 5
3 3
84 5
5 5
3 2
80 82
√ 29 SI
5 5
5 3
4 88
5 5
5 3
3 84
86 √
30 YRA 5
5 5
3 3
84 5
5 5
3 2
80 82
√ 31 YF
5 5
5 3
3 84
5 5
5 4
3 88
86 √
To tal
2560 2524 2542
5 26
Percentage of the Student’s writing score
16.12 83.87
Notes: 1.
Rater 1 refers to the researcher 2.
Rater 2 refers to the English teacher The students’ mean score of writing test
M = Adopted from Hadi, 1989:246
Notes: M: The
mean score of the students’ writing achievement. : The total score of the students’ writing test.
N: The number of the students.
M = = 82.58 Rater 1
M = = 81.41 Rater 2
M = = 82 Average
The percentage of the students’ writing score Ʃ =
x 100 Adopted from Ali, 1993:186
Notes: E: The percentage of the students who got at least 70
n: The total students who got the score at least 70. N: The number of the students.
The percentage of students who got score ≥ 70
Ʃ = x 100= 83.87
The percentage of students who got score 70 Ʃ =
x 100= 16.12
Table 4.6 showed that there were 26 students or 83.87 who got score more than 70 and the other students got score lower than 70. It means that the
result of the students’ writing descriptive text achieved the standard percentage
requirement in this research that was 70 of the total Class VIII D students got score 70 or more. In conclusion, the result of the actions showed that the use of
realia could improve the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. Therefore, the cycle was stopped.
2.2.3 The Result of Reflection in Cycle 2
