THE USE OF TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENT (TGT) METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMK Negeri 3 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/2016)

LISNAWATI, NUR ALITA (2016) THE USE OF TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENT (TGT) METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMK Negeri 3 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/2016). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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ABSTRACT Nur Alita Lisnawati. 2016. “The Use of Teams Games Tournament (TGT) Method to Improve Students’ Writing Skill of Descriptive Text (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Grade Students of SMK Negeri 3 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/2016)”. A Graduating Paper of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty (TTEF) State Institute for Islamic Studies. Counselor: Ari Setiawan, S.Pd.,M.M. This research is aimed to improve the student’s writing skill through Teams Games Tournament (TGT) method. The objectives of this research is to describe about the process of teaching writing by using TGT, to find out whether TGT method can improve the students’ writing skill and to know the significant improvement using TGT method to the students’ writing skill. This research was conducted at the second grade students of SMK Negeri 3 Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016. The data was gathered through the evaluation test score, the observation note, and documentation study. The result of the study shows that the use of TGT method can improve students’ writing skill. This research used classroom action research (CAR). It was seen from the comparative result of the test in each cycle. The improvement of students’ writing was indicated by their score in test. It can be seen from the result of cycle I to the cycle II, where in pre- cycle students’ mean on mastery writing was only 66.68, it increased became 71.58 In cycle I. In cycle II it increased from 73.24 to 79.31. The finding shown that the t-test calculation from the result of pre-test and post-test in cycle I is 12.22 and in cycle II is 9.92. Both of them was greater than t-table with N=28 (2.05). This mean this research has been completed and shows that TGT can improve the students’ writing skill, especially in descriptive text. This method can help the students to understand the material easily. Keyword: Writing Skill, TGT, Classroom Action Research

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