Improving The Students’ Ability In Writing Narrative Text By Using Fairy Tale Story
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The research question is: “Does the use of fairy tale story improve the students’ achievement in
writing narrative text to the grade X students of SMA N 1 Selesai in 2017-2018 academic year?”.
The aims of this research is to find out: “If the use of Fairy tale story improve the students’
achievement in writing narrative text to the grade X students of SMA N 1 Selesai in 2017-2018
academic year. The subject of this research is the grade X students of SMA N 1 Selesai in 2017-
2018 academic year with the total number 32 students. The method used in this research is
Classroom Action Research (CAR), which consists of planning, action, observation and reflection.
The instruments used to obtained primary data and the secondary data were writing test, the students’
observation sheets, and questionnaire of the respondent. To analyze the students scores used the
formula of percentage of class (%). The writer and students’ observation sheets were analyzed using
formula of percentage of mean score. The data presented in this study is qualitative data which are
obtained from pre-cycle, the implementation, and the reflection of the action. From the result of the
research, in the first cycle, the amount of the students who passed the test was improve. There were
78,12% of students who passed the test. However, it can not indicate the percentage of success. The
weakness of the cycle one was planned to overcome in the second cycle. In the second cycle, it was
found that the use of Fairy Tale make the students learning effectively through their active
participation in learning process, and through Fairy Tale story improved the students’ achievement
in writing narrative text. The result of the study in the second cycle, there were 93,75% students
who passed the test. It was greater the level of criteria of success. It can be concluded that the use
of Fairy Tale story improves the students’ achievement in writing narrative text by the grade X
students of SMA N 1 Selesai in 2017-2018 academic years.
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