The Improving Student Achievement on Writing Ability Thorught Write-Pair-Share Strategy

1. Name : Dea Setyorini R (1305085117 )
Class : A Afternoon
THE IMPROVING STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT ON WRITING ABILITY THORUGHT
WRITE-PAIR-SHARE STRATEGY
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Writing is a very important skill as writing needs practice and wring is the very
difficult subject for the students. Through writing, each person is able to convey
feelings, ideas, and announcements to others. Sharples (1999:8) actually, writing is an
opportunity; it allows students to express something about themselves, explore and
explain ideas. There are many factors caused the student’s writing ability becomes not
maximal, one of them because in Indonesia, writing is not taught comprehensively at
school. Writing activity is thought for a moment, the students do not have much time to
develop their writing ability, besides that English teacher do not only teaching writing
but also other skills such as reading and speaking. Strategy of teaching writing is also
very important. The students need to be given new strategy to make them more
interested.
Based on those problems, the writer applied Write-Pair-Share as a strategy to
improve students’ writing ability. The writer will conduct a study and applied this
strategy to see the improvement of student’s achievement in writing ability of the tenth
grade students of SMK 7 Samarinda.
1.2. RESEARCH QUESTION
The research problem in this study is whether there is improvement on student’s
achievement in writing ability of the tenth grade students of SMK 7 Samarinda, as
follows:
“Does Write-Pair-Share strategy can improve student’s achievement in writing ability?”
1.3. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES/AIMS
Based on the research question above, then the aim of this study is to investigate
and to find out the improvement of student’s achievement in writing ability thought the
Write-Pair-Share strategy of the tenth grade students of SMK 7 Samarinda.
1.4. HYPOTHESIS
1. The Null Hypothesis (Ho): The use of Write-Pair-Share strategy does not improve
student’s achievement in writing ability of the tenth grade students of SMK 7
Samarinda.
2. The Alternative Hypothesis (Ha): The use of Write-Pair-Share strategy improve
student’s achievement in writing ability of the tenth grade students of SMK 7
Samarinda.

2. 1.5. DEFINITION OF KEY TERM
1. Improving is act of enhancing or making better in terms of quality, value or
usefulness. This can be by making ideas, objects or processes more desirable by
adding or removing components. The term can be also be applied to people as
well, via methods such as performance reviews which are meant to try and improve
an employee in some manner.
2. Achievement is the result, the successfulness, the extent or ability, the progress in
learning education experiences that the individual indicates relation with his/her
educational learning.
3. Writing is a process of activity to express or communicate our feeling, ideas,
opinion and other in written form or language skill that is used to communicate
indirectly from one person to another without face to face.
4. Write Pair Share is a variation from think-pair-share strategy for teaching that was
developed by Dr. Frank Lyman (1981) in Scientific Journal Kaneb Center Online.
CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
THEORIES
2.2. CONCEPT OF ACHIEVEMENT
Travers (1970:447) states that achievement is the result of what an individual has
learned from some education experience. Additionally, Yelon, Weinstein, and Weener
(1977:301) express achievement as the successfulness of individual, while another
source Smith and Hudgins (1964:95) says that achievement is to do one’s best, to be
successful to accomplish tasks requiring skill and effort and to be recognized by
authority.
Based on the opinions above, it can be concluded that achievement is the result, the
successfulness, the extent or ability, the progress in learning education experiences that
the individual indicates relation with his/her educational learning. Achievement
concerns with what someone has actually learnt whereas aptitude is the potential for
learning something. In other words, achievement is a success in reaching particular
goal/status or standard, especially by effort, skill, courage, and so on.
2.2.1. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
The student achievement definition relate directly towards the type of
environment and situation where learning is being facilitated. There are various
measures and methods used to track student achievement, and these too differ
according to facility or institution. The student achievement definition must be
comparable to the methods used and the ability of each learner. When
determining how to improve student achievement it is best to consider a variety
of factors and criteria. By increasing student achievement, learners can build
confidence and increase motivation.
The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student
achievement. Assessing a student involves the process of gathering data from a
variety of sources i.e., projects, tests, assignments, demonstrations, etc.
Assessment of a student must focus on the whole child (social, physical,

3. emotional, and academic). If professionals (psychologists, social workers,
physical, occupational, and speech therapists, etc.) are working with the student,
enlist their feedback and suggestions.
Using a variety of assessment tools, you will base your student evaluations
on how well they have met the provincial expectations. From research we have
learned that there are 5 key factors that improve achievement;
1. The provision of effective feedback to students.
2. The active involvement of students in their own learning.
3. Adjusting teaching to take account of the results of assessment.
4. Recognition of the profound influence assessment has on the motivation and
self-esteem of pupils, both of which are crucial influences on learning.
5. The need for students to be able to assess themselves and understand how to
improve.
2.3. CONCEPT OF WRITING ABILITY
Each person has different ability. In this case, the word “ability” is defined
differently by experts but the definitions are same meaning. Watson (1976:2) states
that ability is a skill or power insufficient quantity cleverness talent.
According to Morris (1984) ability is the quality of being able to do something.
Americana (1978) has mentioned that ability is a general term used to refer to any
characteristics of person that makes it possible for him to carry out some sort of
activity successfully.
Hornby (1974) states, that the ability is potential capacity of power to do
something physically or mentally. While, writing is a process of activity to express or
communicate our feeling, ideas, opinion and other in written form or language skill
that is used to communicate indirectly from one person to another without face to face.
2.4. CONCEPT OF STRATEGY
According Symons (1989) put it succinctly, “Once it is known that a population
benefits from instruction to use a strategy, there remains the question of whether
students can be trained to use the strategy consistently and appropriately.” (p.17). The
critics of teaching ‘generic’ strategies courses center upon the fact that learners are not
able to generalize the strategies. First, they revert to their previous ways of learning
soon after the strategy training and second, they don’t know how to apply the strategies
in situations other than those met in the original training. In other words, learners fail
to transfer the strategies learnt. Chalmers and Fuller (1996) also believe that students
who participate in generic strategies program quickly revert to their previous lower
level patterns when they return to conventional courses of study.
2.4.1. WRITE PAIR SHARE STRATEGY
This strategy can increase confidence for students in sharing with
class, get everyone engaged and can be used in any subject with almost any
text. Write-Pair-Share is a variation from think-pair-share strategy that was
developed by Dr. Frank Lyman (1981) in Scientific Journal Kaneb Center
Online (2013) which state write-pair-share is a modification of the Think-Pair-

4. Share. So thus learning steps in Write-Pair-Share similar to Think-Pair-Share
strategy.
The differences only in the skills which is applied, in the Think-Pair-
Share is speaking skill, meanwhile Write-Pair-Share is writing skill. The steps
using Write-Pair-Share as strategy in teaching as follows;
1. Write
Write the prompt question that you will use and identify when the activity
will be implemented during class. The questions should:
a. Elicit deep thinking, avoid prompt that would only ask for recitation of
factual information.
b. Be challenging but not so difficult as to prevent student from
beginning to responses.
2. Pair
Allowing student to discuss their responses with peer will help them
clarify their thinking and, when sensitive topics are involved, allow them
to protect of reporting out as “we” rather than “I”.
3. Step 3 Share
Call individual students or pairs to share their answer/idea/conclusions
with the entire class.
2.5. REVIEW OF RELATED STUDY
There was some of research that used dialogue as a ways to improve students’
writing ability. Dr. Tiur Asih Siburian (2012) conducted on the Improving Students’
Achievement on Writing Descriptive Text Through Think-Pair-Share on one of school
in Medan and Akhmadianor (2013) conducted on the Improving Writing Skill Thought
Write-Pair-Share in English Subjects of the eight grades students in second semester of
SMP Kesatuan 1 Samarinda.
Dr. Tiur Asih Siburuan was using action research procedure. In her research, she
used three cycles to see the students’ writing descriptive text by using think-pair-share
technique. In three cycles showed that think-pair-share technique could improve the
student writing skill on one of the school in Medan. She proved that using think-pair-
share technique improved the students’ achievement on writing descriptive text.
Meanwhile, Akhamdianor was using classroom action research (PTK). He used
three cycles, each cycle consists of four steps, as follows: a. planning, b. acting, c.
observing, and d. reflecting. From his research he show there is an increase in student’s
writing ability, that means a write-pair-share strategy capable to improve writing
competence and have exceeded the achievement of KKM at least 80% with NM: 7,0.
Therefore it is prove that the write-pair-share strategy can improve students’ writing
skills.

5. CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1. RESEARCH DESIGN
The research design will be use in this research is pre-experimental design. This
design was only use one experimental group. The experimental group received
treatment by means of writing test. The independent variable of this research was write-
pair-share strategy and the dependent variable was student writing ability. Before giving
treatment, the students got pre-test to know the result to compare with post-test that
holds after treatment.
3.2. POPULATION AND SAMPLE
Population is the whole member and sample refers to subgroup of member. The
population of this research is tenth grade student of SMK 7 Samarinda. Based on
Arikunto’s statement said if the subject are less than 100, they can be take them all, but
if subject are more than 100, the can be taken 10-15% or 20-25% or more. All the total
number of sample got treatment by using write-pair-share strategy. The sample in this
study was all the tenth grade students of SMK 7 Samarinda. They were not divided into
two groups, because the writer only used one group as experimental group will be
treated and given pre-test and post-test.
3.3. DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUE(S)
In collecting data, the writer conducted writing test to the tenth grade student of
SMK 7 Samarinda in order to get the students’ achievement on writing ability. The
writing test criteria based on ESL composition profile and to analyze score range using
Arikunto’s (1999) table.
3.4. INSTRUMENT(S)
The writer will use writing test as the instrument. The students will test twice,
before and after treatment. Pre-test and post-test will give to know the result of the
student’s achievement in writing ability before and after treatment by write-pair-share
strategy. In those tests, the student asked to write based on the suggested topic given by
researcher to limit the students writing. To measure the score of writing test, the writer
used five aspects of writing test criteria based on ESL (English as a Second Language)
composition profile, Ommagio (1986). They are:
1. Content
2. Organization
3. Vocabulary
4. Language Usage
5. Mechanics

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