Improving the Students’ Writing
in Narrative Text through Beyond Centers and Circle Time (BCCT) Method for the
Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Writing is one of the four
skills in English that is necessary to be taught. Many students say that writing is the most difficult one. It is caused
by their ignorance about what and how to write.
Writing is admitted widely as
one of the most difficult skills that students ever do, either in foreign
language or in their native language.
There
are many students find that difficulty when they are asked to write because
they do not know how to start and what topic that they should choose. Besides
that, uninteresting topic and unsuitable teaching methods can influence
students’ interest in writing ability. To break through the problem, English
teachers have to be more creative in choosing the materials and methods which
can make the writing class more interesting, exciting, and enjoyable. It can be
done by choosing an appropriate material and method that students like based on
the students’ level and background of knowledge.
Writing will be used as
a generic term to refer to all the various activities that involves
transferring through paper. Writing that focuses primarily on the conventions
of language form, i.g. grammatical or lexical structures will be termed
transcription. The term composition will refer to the skills involved in
effectively developing and communicating an idea or making a point. There are many methods and
techniques in teaching and learning writing. If the method of teaching English
is suitable for the students, they will enjoy it. So, the students will enhance
their ability in the language. Besides that, the teacher gathers some
information about the students’ progress and then doing the evaluation to
measure the students’ achievement. It is better to give the students some
assessment to measure their achievement in writing. Basri. D (2007)
The most important reason for teaching writing
is that it is a basic language skill, just as important as speaking, listening
and reading. Students need to know how to write letter, how to put written
reports together, they need to know some of writing’s special convention such
as punctuation, paragraph construction, etc just as the need to know how to
pronounce spoken English appropriately.
After conducting diagnostic test, the researcher decides to implement The beyond centers and circle time (BCCT) to enhance the students writing narrative text. It will be held at the tenth grade
students of SMA . In the school, the researcher has
found some problems which related to writing skill that is faced by the
students. The student’s skill is
still low and so far from the target of score where the students’ average score
is (53.62%) . meanwhile the succesful minimal criteria (KKM) are 70. It’s mean
that, the researcher still needs to take an action for the next cycle.
The researcher did an
observance in the tenth grade of SMA Negeri
and
the writer observation of some students did not know how to make correct in
writing especially in writing narrative text. So, the researcher hope that the
tenth grade has got good achievement of writing narrative, but the fact
indicates that their achievement is still low. In this context, there is a gap
between what we hope and what the fact show. So, it is important to find out a
good strategy in teaching narrative text. Based on the problem above, the researcher
will conduct this research under the title “Improving Students’ Writing Narrative Text through Beyond Centers and Circle Time (BCCT) method. (A classroom action research at the tenth
grade of SMA)
