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1.3 Research Problems
This study intends to answer the following questions: 1
How can Make up the Story Puzzle be applied in teaching learning process to improve the year eight
students’ mastery of writing recount text at SMP N 3 Batang in the academic year of 20142015?
2 How significant is the improvement of students’ mastery of writing
recount text as the result of the use of Make up the Story Puzzle in teaching learning process?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
According to the research problems, the objectives of this study can be stated as follows:
1 To describe how Make up the Story Puzzle can be applied in teaching
learning process in improving year eight students’ mastery of writing
recount text at SMP N 3 Batang in the academic year of 20142015. 2
To find out whether or not Make up the Story Puzzle gives significant improvements in students’ mastery of writing recount text.
1.5 Significances of the Study
The results of this study are expected to give the following advantages: 1
Practically, it is hoped that this study will give some advantages for English teachers to develop their teaching strategy. The use of Make up
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the Story Puzzle can be applied as a challenging and attractive way in teaching to improve students’ mastery of writing recount text.
2 Pedagogically, it is hoped that this study can help students in learning
writing recount text and be useful for them to increase their motivation in learning English especially in writing recount text.
3 Theoretically, it is hoped that this study will be able to give inspirations
and be used as a reference to do next researches to find out new strategies, which support English teaching and learning process,
especially in improving students’ mastery of writing recount text.
1.6 Scope of the Study
The scope of this study are as follows: 1
This study is only conducted to the year eight students of SMP N 3 Batang in academic year 20142015.
2 Make up the Story Puzzle is a teaching media intended to help students
in improving their mastery of writing recount text. 3
The researcher focuses on improving students’ mastery of writing recount text in term of content, diction, and grammatical features of the
text.
1.7 Outline of the Study
The researcher divided this study into five chapters. They are Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, and Chapter V.
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Chapter I is an introduction, it presents background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, research problems, objectives of the study, significances of the
study, limitations of the study, and outline of the study. Chapter II is a review of related literatures; it presents previous studies and
theoretical review. Chapter III is a method of the study; it presents research design, research
object, research variables, hypotheses, research instruments, method of collecting data, and method of analyzing data.
Chapter IV is an analysis of data and the result discussion. It presents the research findings, data analysis, and discussion.
Chapter V is a conclusion and suggestion. It presents conclusion and also some suggestions according to the result of the study.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
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