Definition of Term Outline of the Report

1.7 Limitation of the Study

This study focused on the use of Gallery Walk technique in teaching writing announcement text. As it is mentioned in 2006 Competence-Based Curriculum, announcement text is included in short functional text. In this research, announcement text that was taught for the students was in a short form, not in a complex form. This study was done in SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Weleri, to the eighth grade students in academic year of 20132014.

1.8 Definition of Term

a Teaching writing Brown 2000:7 states that “Learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instructio n.” Furthermore, he mentions that “Teaching, which is implied in the definition of learning, may be defined as showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing with knowledge, causing to know or understand.” Meanwhile, 2006 Competence–Based Curriculum mentions that there are four skills in teaching English: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Based on the Meyers 2005:1, “writing is a way to produce language, which you do naturally when you speak. You say something, think of more to say, perhaps correct something you have said, and then move on to the next statement.” Meanwhile, Harmer 2004:3 states that “although almost all human beings grow up speaking their first language and sometimes their second or third as a matter of course, writing has to be taught.” From the definition above, teaching writing means that we help students to learn how to write well so that the students are able to communicate in a written language as well as in a spoken language. b Announcement text 2006 Competence –Based Curriculum for junior high school states that one kind of short functional texts that the students should learn is announcement text. Mustriana and Kurniawati 2005:94 mention that “an announcement is something said, written or printed to make known what has happened or what will happen. It includes the following points: the titletype of event, datetime, place, and who to contact.” c Gallery Walk technique Francek 2006 defines Gallery Walk as a discussion technique that gets students out of their chairs and actively involved in synthesizing important science concept, writing, and public speaking.

1.9 Outline of the Report

This final project is divided into five chapters. The first chapter discusses about the introduction that consists of the background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statement of the problem, objective of the study, hypotheses, significance of the study, limitation of the study, definition of term, and the outline of the report. The second chapter deals with the review of the related literature which consists of the review of the previous studies, review of theoretical study, and the theoretical framework. The third chapter is about the research methodologies. This chapter consists of the research design, population and sample, the instruments for collecting data, the method of collecting data, and the method of analyzing data. The fourth chapter presents the data analysis and discussion. The fifth chapter is the last chapter. It deals with the conclusion and some suggestion related to the topic of the study. 10 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter deals with the review of underlying theory or literature. It contains of three main sub-chapters. First of all, it deals with the review of the previous studies. Second, it is about review of the theoretical study and the last is theoretical framework.

2.1 Review of the Previous Studies