Sri Amik, 2201405077 (2009) The Use of Contextual Teaching Learning Technique in Teaching Writing Descriptive Texts to the First Year Students of SMP N 1 Doplang. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The main objective of this study is to know how effective the use of contextual teaching learning technique in teaching writing descriptive texts is. So this final project mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of using CTL (Contextual Teaching Learning) technique in teaching writing descriptive texts. This study was conducted under the consideration that the students often get difficulties in describing something. In order to achieve the objective of the study, I designed an action research. The population of this study was the VII year students of SMP Negeri 1 Doplang. The number of the subjects of this study was 40 students. During the research, the students becoming the subjects were taught by using CTL technique in teaching writing descriptive texts. There were two cycles in this action research. Each cycle consisted of four phases. Before giving treatments in those two cycles, the students were given pre-test and pre-questionnaire. After each treatment in each cycle, the students were tested. And the last, they were given post-test and post-questionnaire. Before the tests were used, they were tried out to 60 students. Each test was tried out to 20 students. The main purpose of conducting it was to find out the validity and the reliability of the test as instrument. The result of this research shows that the students’ ability in writing descriptive texts improved after a series of treatments given in the cycles. It can be seen by comparing the means of their tests. The mean score for the pre-test was 50.5, the mean score for test 1 was 61.55, and the mean score for test 2 was 66.285, while the mean score for the post-test was 71.175. It is clear that after Contextual Teaching Learning technique was applied in each treatment, the mean of each test improves and gets better, and better. In line with the result, I also suggest that English teachers should be able to create their own way to be more creative and to motivate their students in order to be more interested in English. The use of CTL (Contextual Teaching Learning) technique is one of the ways to achieve the goal. However, teacher must be wise to choose which component of CTL is most appropriate to a certain material given to the students.

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