Improving Students’ Writing Skills Using Cooperative Learning (The Classroom Action Research for Vocational High School Of Tenth Grade SMK Diponegoro Salatiga in The Academic Year 2018/2019

istiqomah, siti (2018) Improving Students’ Writing Skills Using Cooperative Learning (The Classroom Action Research for Vocational High School Of Tenth Grade SMK Diponegoro Salatiga in The Academic Year 2018/2019. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

The objectives of the study are: (1) To know using Cooperative Learning is effective to improve students’ Writing skill for the tenth grade students’ vocational high school of SMK Diponegoro Salatiga in the academic year 2018/2019. (2) To find the result of students’ ability in writing when the teacher using Cooperative Learning for the tenth grade students’ vocational high school of SMK Diponegoro Salatiga in the academic year 2018/2019. The methodology of this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research consisted of two cycles and each cycle consisted of four steps, they were: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The subject of this research is class X AK-2, which consists of 28 students. The technique of collecting data was the observation, test and documentation. The result of this research shows that (1) there was an improvement of writing skills using cooperative learning. It shown in cycle I the mean of post-test is higher than the mean of pre-test. The mean of post-test is (72.89) and mean of pre-test is (68.46) . In cycle II the mean of post-test is higher than the mean of pre-test. The mean of post-test is (82.8) and the mean of pre-test is (72.71). (2) There was a significant influence of using cooperative learning in improving writing skills from the cycle I up to the cycle II. It is shown the result of T-test in cycle I is 6.871 and cycle II is 9.106. Moreover, the t-test in the cycle II is bigger than the t-test of the cycle I. From the result, the researcher concluded that using cooperative learning can improve writing skills for tenth grade students of SMK Diponegoro Salatiga.

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