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Research: Improving Students Writing Skill in Descriptive Paragraph by Using Semantic Mapping at the Seventh Grade Class D of SMP N 29 Pekanbaru. Classroom Action Research. SMP Negeri 29 Pekanbaru.


Improving Students Writing Skill in Descriptive Paragraph by Using Semantic Mapping at the Seventh Grade Class D of SMP N 29 Pekanbaru. Classroom Action Research. SMP Negeri 29 Pekanbaru.

This research was a classroom action research that was done at the seventh grade class D of SMP N 29 academic years 2011/2012 with participants were 38 students. The research was conducted due to the problems of students in learning writing. Therefore, the researcher decided to try to improve their writing skill by applying semantic mapping strategy. The researcher collected data through doing some instruments such as writing tests, observations, field notes, and interview. Based on all of data, those proved that their writing skill and its process of learning writing increased.
From the previous explanations, the researcher could conclude that applying semantic mapping strategy could improve students' writing skill. There were some factors that influenced their improvement. The first was brainstorming process that led them easy to convey and think about the ideas. The second was the categorization process that made them easy to determine kinds of the idea. The third was the mapping process made them easy to write a good descriptive paragraph. The last was the teacher’s roles facilitated them to have an effective class.


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