The Use of Articles from the Jakarta Post Website as the Authentic Material to Improve Students’ Writing Ability in Organizing Analytical Exposition Text (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Year of SMA Negeri 2 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/ 2016)

Rejeki, Sri (2016) The Use of Articles from the Jakarta Post Website as the Authentic Material to Improve Students’ Writing Ability in Organizing Analytical Exposition Text (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Year of SMA Negeri 2 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/ 2016). Other thesis, IAIN Salatiga.

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ABSTRACT Rejeki, Sri. 2016. “The Use of Articles from the Jakarta Post Website as the Authentic Material to Improve Students’ Writing Ability in Organizing Analytical Exposition Text (A Classroom Action Research at the Second Year of SMA Negeri 2 Salatiga in the Academic Year of 2015/ 2016).” Graduating Paper. English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN). Counselor: Dr. Sa’adi, M.Ag. Keywords: analytical exposition text, the Jakarta Post website, writing ability. This research was aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ writing ability in organizing analytical exposition text of second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Salatiga in theacademic year of 2015/2016 through articles from The Jakarta Post website. Besides that, it also to find out the significant improvement of the students’ writing ability after being taught by using articles from The Jakarta Post website of second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Salatiga in the academic year of 2015/2016. The number of the students in this research was 26 students.In completing this research the writer used the observation, documentation, and written test as the instrument of collecting the data. By conducting classroom action research, it was found out that the implementation of articles from The Jakarta Post website improved students’ writing ability in organizing analytical exposition text. From the results mean score of post-test were higher than the pre-test. In the cycle I showed that the pre-test score was 59.54 and the post test was 71.15 and in the cycle II showed that the pre-test score was 72 and the post test 82.35. The result of statistic calculation indicated that t-calculation of cycle I was 5.99 and cycle II was 8.21 with t-table was 2.060. It means the final result showed that t-calculation was greater than t-table. It proved that there was significant difference of the students’ writing ability in organizing analytical exposition after being taught by using articles from The Jakarta Post website.

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