USING Y CHART TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE SEVENTH GRADERS OF SMP 2 BOROBUDUR

Abstract

Writing is one of the language skills which has an important role for the students to express their feeling and ideas. However, the seventh graders of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 still got difficulty in writing, especially in writing descriptive text. There are two objectives of this research. First, it is to know how great the use of Y Chart Technique can increase the learning motivation of descriptive text writing of the seventh graders of SMP N 2. Second, it is to know how great the improvement of the descriptive text writing skill of the seventh graders of SMP N 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 who are taught by using Y Chart Technique. The writer conducted a classroom action research. The subject of this research was the class of VII A of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 involving 17 females and 6 males. The writer implemented three phases in this research; they are Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and Cycle II. The writer used observation sheet, questionnaire, and documentations to collect the data. Based on the above results, the writer concludes that the use of Y Chart Technique can increase the students’ learning motivation in writing descriptive text and there is a great improvement of the descriptive text writing skill of the tenth graders of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018. The writer suggests the teachers and the students to use Y Chart technique as an alternative teaching and learning.