Rianndari, Putri (2017) Improving The Descriptive Paragraph Writing Skills Through Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) Method Among The Eighth Grader of SMPN 01 Pekalongan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to show the improvement of Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) methodcan improve the students’ writing skill and it can improve the students’ learning process. The writer tries to attest that Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) methodcan be one of the teaching strategy to improve the students’ writing skills.The focus of this research is paragraph writing skills. The problem is related on the problem identification that the students do not understand about the passage, they do not interest in writing subject.Inthisresearch, the researcher conductsclassroom action research (CAR)which is done in two cycles. Each cycle consistsof planning, acting, observingand reflecting. The subjects ofthis research is29 students VIII2of SMPN 1 Pekalongan. In collecting the data, the researcher used test ( pre-test, post test 1 and posat test 2), observation, documentation and field note.The research is conducted collaboratively with an English teacher of SMPN 1 Pekalongan.

The result of thisresearch shows that there aresomeimprovementin students’writing skillsbyusing Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) methodindescriptive paragraph writing skills. The improvementcan be seen from the progress of the average score in pre-test, post-test I, and post-test II. It was from 60in pre-test to 67.20 in post-test I, and 75.51 in post-test II. It meansthat the increase of thestudent score in cycle I to cycle II is8.31point. The percentage of students who success in second cycle is 86,2%. It is greater than 70% which has been set by the researcher upin this study. The conclusion of this research was using Presetation, Practice, Production (PPP) method to improve the descriptive paragraph writing skills at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Pekalongan is successful because criteria used in this research was achieved well.

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