IMPLEMENTING ROUNDTABLE COMBINED WITH PICTURE TO IMPROVE WRITING SKILL OF THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 6 DENPASAR IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
Keywords:
Improving, Roundtable combined with picture, Writing skillAbstract
The undertaking of the exploration was substantially grounded on the primary study. The
result of pre-test showed that utmost of the scholars in VIII-4 class of SMPN 6 Denpasar in academic
year 2022/2023 faced problem in writing skill. The students had problems in constructing unified and
coherent writing descriptive paragraph. The subjects consisted of 41 students: 20 males and 21
females. The object was to know whether or not the writing skill of the eighth-grade students of
SMPN 6 Denpasar in academic year 2022/2023 can be improved trough Roundtable combined with
picture. The design was a classroom behavioral study. This was done in two cycles, each cycle
consisting of two sessions. Data showed that there were significant improvement on subject's average
score from pre- and post-tests. The average pretest score was 45.39, post-test I was 74.39, and posttest
II was 83.73. As supporting data, the questionnaire was also administered at the end of the last
cycle and the results were displayed more than 93% of the subjects positively agreed on
implementing Roundtable combined with picture in improving writing skill. Based on the data, the
implementation of Roundtable combined with picture can make the subject more creative and be
brave in expressing their idea into a good paragraph. Based on the findings, it could be concluded that
the writing ability of the eighth-grade students at SMPN 6 Denpasar in the 2022/2023 school can be
improved trough a Roundtable combined with picture.
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