Guided Writing to Improve the Students’ Writing

Citation : Ningsih, Suma (2016) “Guided Writing to Improve the Students’ Writing Ability of Junior High School Students”, EFL Journal, p.129-140

In this article, it is clearly mentioned that this is a classroom action research which aimed at improving the students’ writing ability of madrasah students at MTs Alumuna Samarinda.The research was set for the second grade students of MTs Alumuna Samarinda who has a problem in English, especially in writing skill. To overcome the problems of writing, it should be implemented more appropriate teaching techniques to teach writing to the junior high school students. One of the techniques is guided writing. Juriah (2015) states that guided writing is an individual or group activity where learners use word maps to organize their ideas and write texts. A word map is a diagram used in guided writing to help writers organize their ideas. Hartanti (2011) explains that guided writing allows a teacher to work closely with a  The instruments of the research are observation in order to record the data and writing test which is applied in the end of cycle. There were two cycles in this study. Each cycle consisted of three meetings for the implementation of guided writing and one meeting for conducting test. The data, then, were analyzed descriptively and statistically. The data taken from observation was analyzed descriptively. Meanwhile, the data from writing test was counted statistically to determine the mean score. It was found that in preliminary study, there were 14 students (50%) who achieved minimum passing grade and there were 14 students (50%) of the students who did not pass the minimum passing grade, the highest score was 80 and the lowest score was 50. In Cycle 1, there were 18 students (64%) who achieved minimum passing grade and there were 10 students (36%) of the students who did not pass the minimum passing grade, the highest score was 80 and the lowest score was 55. This cycle was not successful because it did not reach the criteria of success, 70. In Cycle 2, there were 22 students (79%) who achieved minimum passing grade and there were 6 students (21%) of the students who did not pass the minimum passing grade, the highest score was 90 and the lowest score was 60. This cycle was successful because it reached the criteria of success.