IMPROVING STUDENTS` WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH PICTIONARY GAME TECHNIQUE TO THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1 SAMALANGA (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research)

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The title of this research is Improving Students` Writing Descriptive Text through Pictionary Game Technique to the First Year Students of SMA Negeri 1 Samalanga. The background of this research was come from the phenomena that the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Samalanga did not understand what the teacher taught in English, and when the teacher gave them the text or paragraph, the students did not understand the meaning of the text or paragraph. Therefore, they could not answer the question from the teacher. Other than that, they were not be able to write the text or paragraph by paragraph. From the problems above the researcher draw the research purposes (1) to know whether the Pictionary Game technique can improve the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Samalanga (2) to know the student response toward the implementation of the Pictionary Game technique to the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Samalanga. The research subject was the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Samalanga. This research was a collaborative classroom action research that was done in two cycles, which consisted of four steps: planning, implementing, observing, analyzing and reflecting. In collecting the data, the researcher used quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were taken from writing test that was scored based on content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. The qualitative data were taken from; field note, observation checklists, and questionnaire. From the result of test in the first cycle, students mean score was 54 and the second cycle was 75. From the observation checklist and field note in the first cycle, the researcher found that students shown good attitude and running their activities well during the actions, the progress of students’ activities and students’ attitudes were 3.8 and 4, and then increased to 4.2 to 4.9 in the second cycle. The teachers’ performances in the first cycle were 3.9 and 4.3 and then increased to 4.6 to 4.8 in the second cycle. From the questionnaire, the researcher found that the mean score of students’ respond were 3.5 belonging to criteria “agree”. From the result of the research could be concluded that the implementation of Pictionary game technique had succeeded and improved the students writing skill. In another words that Pictionary game is a good technique, which is proved as an effective technique to improve writing skill especially for teaching writing descriptive text.

Key words: Writing, Pictionary Game Technique, Descriptive Text.