Lestari, Sandra Puji (2023) The Use of Roundtable Technique to Increase the Student's Descriptive Paragraph Writing Skill at SMPN 1 Batanghari. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study to investigate the use of Roundtables can increase students' skill to write descriptive paragraph and their learning activities in eighth graders of SMP N 1 Batanghari in the 2022/2023 academic year. The researcher has limited the problem in this study which focuses on skill in writing descriptive paragraph. To increase the skill to write descriptive paragraph, researchers used the Roundtable technique. Furthermore, the research method in this study was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation and reflection. The object of this research is the students' skill to write descriptive paragraph. In collecting data, researchers used tests, observations, documentation, and field notes. This research was conducted in a collaborative study with eighth grade English teachers at SMP N 1 Batanghari.

Finally, the results of this study prove that the use of the Roundtable technique can increase students' skill to write descriptive paragraph because based on the results of post-test II, 82% of students can achieve the minimum completeness criteria (KKM). In addition, the post-test II results prove that the percentage of student learning activity is 77%. This means that the Roundtable technique can increase student learning activities. Therefore, it was concluded that the use of the Roundtable technique could increase the students‟ skill to write descriptive paragraph and the learning activities of students at SMP N 1 Batanghari.

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