IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS THROUGH WHOLESOME SCATTERING GAME OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ‘PLUS’ ASSYAFA’AH KARANGGEDE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019

Maula, Nimatul (2018) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS THROUGH WHOLESOME SCATTERING GAME OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP ‘PLUS’ ASSYAFA’AH KARANGGEDE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract

The research is mainly aimed to improve students’ writing skills through wholesome scattering game of the eighth grade students of SMP ‘Plus’ Assyafa’ah Karanggede in the academic year of 2018/2019. The subject of this research was 20 students in VIII class. The objective of the study are: (1) To describe wholesome scattering game can improve students’ writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMP “Plus” Assyafa’ah Karanggede in the academic year of 2018/2019. (2) To describe how wholesome scattering game significantly improve students’ writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMP “Plus” Asyafa’ah Karanggede in the academic year of 2018/2019. The methodology of research was classroom action research. It was conducted in 2 cycles which consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection in every cycle. The technique of collecting data was the observation to find out the teacher’s and students’ activity during implementation wholesome scattering game in the classroom. The second was written a test to find out the students’ writing skills in descriptive text. The last one was documentation to find out the data which correlated with the research. The writer found there were improvement in students’ writing skills through wholesome scattering game, especially in descriptive text. The result of the research was successful. It was shown from the t-test of the first cycle and the second cycle which was higher than the t-table. The t-table was 2.09 and the t-test was 5.99. The mean score of post-test was higher than the mean score of pre-test, (63.3 and 50.6). Besides that, the mean score of post-test in the second cycle was higher than the mean score of pre-test (78 and 66.15). While the score of t-test was 7.09. The improvement of students’ writing skills was significant. It can be seen from the number of the students who passed the passing grade in two cycles. The passing grade was 75. The students who passed the passing grade of pre-test in the first cycle was 5% and the post-test was 25%. While the pre-test in the second cycle was 45% and post-test was 75%. The data showed that the result of the t-test in the first cycle and the second cycle was higher than t-table. It means that the implementation of wholesome scattering game is successful to improve students’ writing skills in descriptive text.

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