Anggi Sinta Hapsari , 2201407114 (2011) The Use of Roundtable Technique to Improve Students‟ Achievement in Writing Hortatory Exposition Text (A Case of Grade XI Students of SMA N 1 Batang in the Academic Year 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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The title of this final project is “The Use of Roundtable Technique to Improve Students‟ Achievement in Writing Hortatory Exposition Text”. Teaching writing Hortatory Exposition Text to senior high school students is not easy. The students do not only need to construct their idea, arguments, and awareness about the case of the text but also have to be able to convey their ideas in English. The objectives of this study are to investigate whether the roundtable technique gives contribution to improve students‟ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text and to discover whether difficulties students of SMA Negeri 1 Batang have in applying roundtable technique in writing hortatory exposition text. To achieve the objectives of the study, I conducted an action research. I took class XI IPS 3 at SMA N 1 Batang in the academic year 2010/2011 as the subject of this study. In conducting this action research, I used four steps: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. I used observation sheet, teaching journal, and interview to gather the data of this study. The students could not write the correct written of hortatory exposition text before the treatment. After they got treatment, they could write hortatory exposition text in correct organization and grammar. Because they could not write hortatory exposition text well, the researcher conducted the next treatment. The students finally could write the hortatory exposition text in correct grammar, content, mechanics, word choice, and style after they got the last treatment. So the students‟ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text improved. In addition, most students were interested in the teaching activities by using roundtable technique in writing hortatory exposition text. Then, they were able to apply the roundtable technique well. From the findings, I conclude that the use of roundtable technique in teaching writing Hortatory Exposition Text is very beneficial for students. It gives significant progress in students‟ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text. Thus, the teacher can use roundtable as another technique to teach students in writing hortatory exposition text. This result hopefully would motivate the teacher to find another teaching technique for writing hortatory exposition text so it would improve students‟ achievement in writing

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