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According to the explanation above, the researcher is interested to conduct a study by using Make up the Story Puzzle
as a teaching media to improve students’ mastery of writing recount text in junior high school level.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
This study is related to the usage of Make up the Story Puzzle in improving students’ mastery of writing recount text. The reasons for the researcher to choose
the topic of Make up the Story Puzzle as a media in improving students’ mastery
of writing recount text are as follows: 1
Writing is considered as the most difficult skill to acquire than the other language skills.
2 Recount text is one of the text types that are taught in eighth grade of
junior high school level. 3
Most students have less motivation in composing a text because they consider writing activity is not interesting and monotonous.
4 During a teaching training in one junior high school in Batang, the
researcher found a case that challenging and attractive teaching activities encourages and motivates students to do better during the
teaching learning process. 5
Make up the Story Puzzle is applicable in teaching learning process as teaching media to improve students’ mastery of writing recount text.
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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
