Siti Muamalah, 2201415038 (2020) TEAM PAIR SOLO PLUS PICTURES FOR TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT A Case Study of an English Teacher in SMK NU 01 Hasyim Asy’ari Tarub in the Academic Year of 2019/2020. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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This study was conducted to explore the implementation of Team Pair Solo and pictures by an English teacher in teaching writing of descriptive text. The objectives were to describe the implementation of Team Pair Solo and pictures in teaching writing descriptive text by an English teacher, explain the difficulties that were faced by the English teacher in teaching writing descriptive text using Team Pair Solo and pictures, and describe how the English teacher solved those difficulties. In this study, I used qualitative method. The participant of this study was an English teacher in SMK NU 01 Hasyim Asy‟ari Tarub in the academic year of 2019/2020. In this study, I used questionnaire, interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis as data collection methods. The results revealed that the teacher integrated Team Pair Solo and pictures with another teaching technique namely lecturing technique and also a game. The game was intended to build the students‟ enthusiasm. It was also found that the teacher taught other skills namely speaking, reading, and listening. This study also showed that the teacher found difficulties namely crowded students and lack of students‟ enthusiasm. To overcome those two difficulties, the teacher asked the students who triggered the fuss to write vocabulary as much as possible and memorize the vocabulary;then, the teacher tested that student‟s memorization in front of the class. Another solution was the teacher conducted a game to overcome the students‟ lack of enthusiasm. There were also other difficulties found related to the students she taught that were students‟ lack of vocabulary, students‟ speaking skill problems, and students‟ pronunciation problems. In conclusion, Team Pair Solo was an interesting technique and pictures were helpful media that helped the English teacher in the teaching and learning process and were somewhat easy to be implemented. The teacher could implement the technique and media well. The technique and media also helped students to be actively engaged in the classroom activity.

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