fatoni, nur (2010) The Use of Dictogloss Technique to Enhance the Students’ Writing Skill in News Item Texts: An Action Research Conducted to the Students of the Tenth Years of SMA 1 Kendal in the Academic Year of 2009/2010. Under Graduates thesis, universitas negeri Semarang.

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ABSTRACT Fatoni, Nur. 2010. The Use of Dictogloss Technique to Enhance the Students’ Writing Skill in News Item Texts: An Action Research Conducted to the Students of the Tenth Years of SMA 1 Kendal in the Academic Year of 2009/2010. Final Project. English Educational Program. S1 Degree. Semarang State University. Supervisor 1, Widhiyanto, S.Pd, M.Pd. Supervisor II, Drs. Alim Sukrisno, M.A. Keywords: Dictogloss. The Students’ Writing Skill. News Item Texts. The Tenth Grader of SMA 1 Kendal. The main objective of this study was to find out how dictogloss technique enhance the students’ writing skill in news item texts. The subjects were 35 students (Class X-5) of SMA 1 Kendal in the academic year of 2009/2010. This study was conducted under the considerations from the writer’s experience in doing Teaching Practice that many teachers only give one chance to their students to write (e.g. news item text). They do not really pay attention to the students’ difficulties in writing. They generally focus on the generic structures of the text and what the text is about. Through dictogloss technique, the teachers can intensively give writing exercises, and they still can focus on those two things. To gain the objectives, the writer did two activities: (1) library activity and (2) field activity. In the library activity, he explored some reference books that were related to KTSP curriculum, dictogloss, writing skill, news item texts, and research. While in field activity, he did the classroom action research in two cycles. Every cycle consisted of four stages (planning, action, observation, and reflection). After conducting the action stage, the writer always analyzed the result by observing the students’ behavior during the teaching and learning process, making a reflection, analyzing the questionnaire, and field note. The result of the study revealed; dictogloss can enhance the students’ writing skill in news item texts. It can be seen from the improvement of the students’ behavior which was much better in participating and enjoying the activities using dictogloss technique. Moreover, based on the observation during the process (the questionnaire and the field note), the students enjoyed the writing activities and the listening comprehension by using this technique. In conclusion, dictogloss technique is one of the positive ways to enhance the students’ writing skill in news item texts. An effective way related to the rhetorical of writing (the generic structures and the lexico-grammatical features of news item texts) based on School-Based Curriculum. Moreover, the writer hopes that other English teachers would practice a similar action research for their classes to enable the students to write effectively, and to comprehend the texts.

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