Paraphrase a Journal Article

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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT THROUGH PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL

Werdi Rolando Damanik

Sri Juriaty Ownie

Introduction:

           

            Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing are four basic language skills which every student must master. However, nowadays active skills such as speaking and writing are very needed for education and business. Based on School Based Curriculum (KTSP), Junior High School Students are expected to write descriptive, procedure, recount, narrative, and report text. The researcher found the problem in students’ writing skill, according to researcher’s experience in Teaching Practice Program (PPL) in First Grade Senior High School. The researcher found some reasons by doing the interview and found that the students cannot organize ideas well, lack of vocabulary, always waiting the help from teacher, and the teaching technique that applied by teacher. Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) was being chosen by the researcher to solve the problem. Students can evolve their idea through the picture to compose a sentence or paragraph. The researcher extracted to know if PWIM can improve students’ achievement in writing procedure on X grade students. The problem of this study is “Does Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) improves students’ achievement in writing procedure text?”  The scope of study will be only focus on investigating the students’ achievement of X grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar in writing procedure text through the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) in order to get the best result.

The results of the study are expected both the theories and practice to be useful for:

1. The students who want to improve their ability in writing procedure test through the P icture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)

2. English teacher who teach writing particularly those who want to improve their students’ achievement in writing procedure text through the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) in order to decrease the problem of the study in the class.

3. The readers who are interested in conducting further study related to the improvement of students’ achievement in writing procedure text through the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)

Literature Review:

            According to Calhoun (1999, p.21) Picture Word Inductive Model is an art strategy to help students develop titles, sentences, and paragraph through the picture that given and labeled by the teacher. PWIM can help students to explain the picture into the sentences according to word charts on the picture. Help students to connect speaking-writing-reading is a major goal of PWIM.

The Procedure of Applying Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)

The ten phases of PWIM that developed by Calhoun (1999) are:

1.      Selected a picture

2.      Ask student to identify what they see in the picture

3.      Label the picture parts identified

4.      Read and review the picture word chart aloud

5.      Ask the students to read and classifying the words

6.      Read and review the picture word chart (say the word, spell it and say it again).

7.      Add words,

8.      Lead students into creating a title

9.      Generate sentences and paragraphs

10.  Read and review the sentences and paragraphs.

The Advantages of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM):

According to Wood, K.D., & Tinajero, J., (2002)

1.      PWIM helps second language learners to start learn a new language in their native language by accentuating phonics, grammar, mechanics, and usage of Standard English.

2.      New word, phrases, and sentences could be more real if given along the picture.

3.      Picture can help students to engage in the classroom activities about the current material and be a part of the teamwork.

4.      Frequently heard and pronounced the word correctly.

5.      Second language learners will guided by the tutor that can give them the word that has the close meaning with their native language.

6.      Picture word chart that given by the teacher also can enrich their vocabulary.

7.      Students can correlate the English language pattern and make them can use it appropriately.

8.      Students can spell and write the word correctly by hearing it frequently.

9.      Second language learner can learn from friends, parents, or teacher to give an example from the key concept.

Methodology:

This research use action research that focus on classroom action research. According to Burns (2010:2) generally, for some time in education, action research is a part of broad movement. Classroom action research implicate repeatedly phases, such as planning, acting, and reflecting.

The Subject of Research

The subject of this research was first grade, X-1 students of SMA Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar Academic Year 2012 which consist of 30 students. This school are consist 3 English teachers for the first grade. And there are ten classes of first grade, class X-1 to X-10.

The Instrument of collecting data

1.      Observation sheet

2.      Diary Note

The Procedure of Action Research

1.      Planning

2.      Action

3.      Observation

4.      Reflection

The Technique of Analyzing the Data:

The researcher uses qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative will analyze the observation sheet and diary note and quantitative data will analyze the result of students’ writing test.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The researcher found the improvement of students’ achievement on writing procedure text by using Picture Word Inductive Model by quantitative data analysis. It can be seen by data, which showed that the mean of the students in Test III (81.16%) was higher than in test II (67.13%) and also in Test I (52.40%). The improvement was not only happened in the mean of students’ score but also in the percentage of master students who got 70 points up. The percentage was improved from 10% in the Test I to 33.33% in the test II and 96.66% in the Test III.

The researcher also found the improvement by qualitative data analysis that the students enthusiasm and interest during teaching learning process was increased.

Based on the result above, PWIM had been successful to improve improved students’ achievement in writing procedure text.

There are positive results that students enjoy in writing and do not find any difficulties during teaching learning process using PWIM, also PWIM improve the students’ score because of this condition.

Based on the conclusion above, the researcher give some suggestions:

1.      Teacher can use PWIM in teaching writing because students really like it and it can increase students’ score.

2.      PWIM can help students easier to write and make the teaching learning process more interesting.

3.      May this research can help all reader to understand how to improve students’ achievement in writing through PWIM.

Reference:

Damanik, W.R, and Ownie, S.J. Improving Students’ Achievement in Writing Procedure Text through Picture Word Inductive Model.