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1. Background
other words, the students are expected to be able use English not only in
is start given from the first Junior High School until the first grade of
language, such as understand them, talk to them, read what they have
written and write to them. From this, we can see how important of English
is.
There are four skills that students need to have in order to concern
about in learning English.. The four language skills are listening, speaking,
reading, and writing. These skills are related to each other. Moreover,
class. Writing is an activity which imagine what are in their mind and then
there are expressions to the written form. In other words, it can be said if
someone has a good writing skill, their may increase their knowledge into
by following some certain rules according the type of text writer want to
create. The writing skills are very important for some reason. The first
reason is writing is important for all grade in the school, because this skill
the students can share information and ideas. Secondly, they can compose
write.
language they have been studying. For example, ask a class to write five
sentences using a given structure or using five of the new words and
meaning, how to edit text appropriate grammar, and how to produce a final
project.
so that’s why the students have difficulties when they want to write.
Their mind set say foreign language is difficult to learn. Teachers in this
are involved in playing the games and they do not realize that they are
games we can know how words can related to each other and more
possible, such as mime and movement, the use of color, pattern, and
personalization.
The teachers should give students new methods in order to make
The researcher will be introduce the method to the students at SMP Negeri
first is many students were lack of the vocabulary, because the students
students lack of the grammar, because they have problems how to write
the word correctly. And the third, students were not interested in the
strategy from the teacher. The main purpose of learners writing activity
school 16 of Palembang?
Palembang.
interested in learning activities. The teachers can find the best way to
3) Other Researchers
source and information for other researchers who are also investigating
educational research.
5. LITERATURE REVIEW
learning, enabling the learner to learn, setting the condition for the
learning. It means that the teachers have function are as facilitator, guide,
people. In fact, it is not easy as we always think. Among the skills, writing
make some mistake and face difficulties to build and develop their
imagination.
confront what learning and understanding are all about. It means that,
when you first write something, you have already been thinking about
what you want to say and how to say it. Than after you have finished
writing, you read over what you have written and make changes and
corrections. You write and revise and write and revisi again until your
their own mental resources and find the time for uninterrupted work. The
successful they become, the more they need to create a structure to the
agent, jurnalist, and readers and allow them to slide rapidly into a
using the rules of writing exactly. It is really not easy work to do. In
many sources to know the truth of the information when we will write.
related statement that a writer develops about a subject. The first sentence
going to discuss. Oshima and hogue (2007:39) state that topic sentence has
two parts, a topic and a controlling idea. The topic names the subject to the
paragraph will say about the topic. The position of the topic sentence is
The following are the tips to help write a good paragraph based on
paragaraph is a group that has related sentences one each other and has
thing.
written text, which has specific the function to give description about an
object (human or non human). According to Hami (2011:16), there are two
keys to write good description. The first key is to use space order, and the
second key is to use specific detail. In space order, students might describe
something from top to bottom or from left to right. For example, when
they describe a person, they could start from the person’s head until the
person’s feet. The second key to writing good description is to the specific
detail. It’s means that when students describe something, they must be
ilustrate the things detail until the reader can imagine the things itself.
of Descriptive Text:
1) Identification
described.
description completely.
helpful.
2) Description
Grammatical Patterns:
sounds, like)
useful to increase the students’ writing ability. In this game the students
are given some keywords to stimulate their writing ability. The students
content of passage and duplicate sentence by using single word that have
(2011:23), students on occasion not only predict the content of the passage
they are about to read, but also almost duplicate sentences, which actually
appear in it. Teachers might find that the first step of arranging the words
in weird and unusual ways is fun and takes quite a while. It is worth the
prepare the instrument early. The teachers can chooses tweleve to the
sixteen keyword from the paragraph that is going to read with the students
in the class.
5.5.1. The Adventages and Disadvenatges of the Wholesome Scattering
Game
namely:
have the blank idea when they are thought material. In this game,
3) The students can develop their text based on keyword that have
disadventages as follows:
1) The teachers need more time to collect and prepare the keyword
2) The students still have limitation by the keyword that have been
Game
1) Ask three to five students to come in the board. Their task is to write
down the words related with descriptive text that the teacher dictates.
Every students write each word, so that each word is written as many
times as there are students at the board. They scatter the words in the
stage. Some students will change their spelling as they observe how
the students nxt to them has spelt a word or as they are corrected by
2) While the students in the board are doing this game, the others students
in their seat can produce their own arranggaments of the word on paper
or their notebook. They can arrange the words into a good desciptive
paragraphs.
3) When the teacher has finished dictating the words, the students who
4) The teachers ask to the students, if anyone in the class have a produce
5) The teachers goes over the words on the board, eliciting correct
They should try to put more than one of the words in each sentences.
Tell them that they have only twenty five minute to arrange descriptive
text.
7) The teachers should stop them, when the time is up and ask them to
tell in front of the class, how many sentence they have succeeded in
writing.
8) At the end of the game, the players who has score the most point is
declared is the winner. This score based on the matrix assessment for
1) Pre-Activities
Greeting
d. The teacher told the theme and asked the students about
d. The teacher ask to the students to discuss and predict the sentence
that the teacher have been given keyword that related with
descriptive paragraph
3) Post-Activities
Paragaraph
b. The teacher give a chance to the students to ask about the material
that they still confused or they have not understand about that.
In this part, the writer describe the similarities and diffrences between
the writer’s study and other’s study done. The title of the thesis is
study and this study. The similarities between the writer’s study and the
study, Lia’s thesis took the population of the tenth Grade students of Tri
Dharma senior high school Palembang. The writer will take the Eighth
grade students of the state junior high school 16 of Palembang. The writer
has the strategy “Wholesome Scattering Game” and Lia was used
obtained was high than t-table. It means that teaching writing by using
sentence race game to the tenth Grade students of Tri Dharma senior high
hypotheses of this study are in form null hypotheses (Ho) and the
distribution table (Hacth and Farhady, 1982:272). The creteria for testing
means that the null hypotheses (Ho) can be acceptable and the alternative
a noun that stands for variation within a class of objects, such as chair,
paragraph.
There are four word will be use in this study : Teaching, Writing,
1) Teaching
2) Writing
Writing is an activity which imagine what are in their mind
3) Descriptive Paragraph
full of condition experimental and does not allow the certain rules.
O1 X O2
Where: O1 = test before treatment (pre-test)
X = treatment
In doing this research, the writer will be take the following steps:
12) Drawing
6.4. Population and Sample
6.4.1. Population
of the study. The population this study will be take all the eighth
TABLE 1
No Class Total
1 VIII.1
2 VIII.2
3 VIII.3
4 VIII.4
5 VIII.5
6 VIII.6
7 VIII.7
8 VIII.8
9 VIII.9
10 VIII.10
Total
6.4.2. Sample
population.
rather than single individual. In this study, the writer use lettery
paper then, divided it into ten pieces. Second, she write down each
classes on paper then rolled them. Third, filled them into a glass,
after that, she shuffeled all roll papers and then take ane paper as
this study. The sample of this study can be see on the table 2
below:
TABLE II
Total
6.5. Techniques for Collecting Data
In collecting the data, the writer will use a written test. According
the students.
is conducted.
the writer. The pre-test will be given to know a measure the students’
ability in the material, and the post-test will be given to the students
The writer will be comparing the students’ score before and after the
not.
test is valid, the writer will make a planning of the test in the table
of specification below:
TABLE III
TEST OF SPECIFICATION
descriptive the
paragraph keyword
theme been a
consisting given.
of 100
words.
6.5.2. Reliability of the test
shoul occurs with the test itself and scores of the test. So, between
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Means:
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