REFLECTIVE PRACTICE OF EFL TEACHERS ON STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION

ABSTRACT Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers on Students’ Writing Skill Development in Indonesian Secondary Education. (Supervised by Kisman Salija and Sahril). Teachers as the main actor in the language classroom has played essential role in developing students language skills especially writing skills. The aim of this study was to get (1) whether or not the use of Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers develop the students’ writing skill at the eleventh grade students of Pesantren IMMIM and (2) the students’ perception toward the use of Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers in writing process. The sample of this study was eleventh grade students of pesantren IMMIM in which were taken by means of purposive sampling. The data was collected through treatment from quasi experimental design by providing pre-test, six meetings for treatment, and post-test. In addition, The data were collected with two instruments: writing test and questionnaire. The result of this research showed that 5.686 with the degree freedom (df) 58 at the level of significant p= 0.05 was higher than the t-table (2.042). Based on the finding and discussion of this research gave description that there was a significant difference between the eleventh grade students of experimental class who was taught by using Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers and control class who was taught by using individual work in writing. Teaching writing through Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers more effective rather than using individual work method. Besides, the analysis of questionnaire indicated that the students’ perception toward the use of Reflective Practice of EFL Teachers were very positive. Keywords: Reflective Practice, EFL Teachers, Writing skill, Indonesian Secondary Educatio