Ariza, Rosehana
(2024)
Improving Students' Writing Skills in Writing Caption
Paragraphs Through Instagram Discussion by Applying WH-Questions
Technique During Writing Process in Grade XII, SMA Negeri 2 Batang Anai.
Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Abstract
The students’ writing skills at grade XII SMAN 2 Batang Anai are still low in
writing paragraphs. Most of the students had not reached the minimum standard of
achievement. The students lacked vocabulary and ideas, so constructing paragraphs
was a difficult task for them. To overcome that problem the researcher researched
how to improve the students’ writing skills in writing paragraphs by using the WH
Question technique. The purpose of the research was to identify to what extent the
WH Question technique in writing paragraphs can improve the student’s writing
skills in Caption Text, how should the teacher implements the WH Question
technique during writing process in writing paragraph Caption text, and the factors
that influent students' skill in writing by using the WH Question technique in
writing paragraph of Caption Text at grade XII of SMA Negeri 2 Batang Anai. This
research was classroom Action research. There were 28 participants in this research,
fourteen males and fourteen females. In conducting the research, the researcher was
helped by a collaborator. This research consisted of two cycles. Each cycle had four
meetings, three meetings for teaching and learning, and the last meeting for the test.
There were two kinds of data namely Quantitative and Qualitative data.
Quantitative data were collected from the tests and qualitative data were from the
observation sheet, fieldnote, and interview result. The finding showed that using
the WH Question technique could improve the student’s writing skills. The
improvement could be seen from the average scores of the student’s writing skills
at each cycle. The average score of cycle 1 was 74,96 In addition, the score then
was improved to 76,93 in cycle 2. This improvement could be seen in each
indicator of writing skill strategy to generate the idea and post on social media,
especially on Instagram. So it can be concluded that by using WH Question can
improve the student’s writing skills in writing paragraphs of Caption text in class
XII IPA1 SMA Negeri 2 Batang Anai.
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