IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE EXPOSITORY TEXT THROUGH CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH

ABSTRACT Anggun Wicaksono. 2019. Improving Students’ Ability to Write Expository Text Through Contextual Teaching and Learning Approach (Guided by Kisman Salija and Sahril) This research aimed to find out improvement the students’ ability in writing expository through contextual teaching and learning (CTL) approach at the second grade student of XI MIA 1 OF MA MADANI in academic year of 2018/2019.The method of this research was A Classroom Action Research that consisted of two cycles. One cycle consisted of three meetings. It means that there were six meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was done at the second grade student of MA MADANI Gowa. The subject of this research was XI MIA 1 class in academic year of 2018/2019 by using contextual teaching and learning (CTL) approach. It consisted of 30 students. The findings of this research were the improvement of the students’ in writing expository text through contextual teaching and learning (CTL) approach and the teacher activities in teaching and learning process. The mean scores of writing expository text in the first cycle was 61.5 and after revision in the second cycle, the mean scores became 76.36. The improvement of students’ ability to write expository text through Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL) approach is presenting expository text material at XI MIA 1 class of MA MADANI Gowa, improves the students’ ability significantly. The mean scores in cycle II is greater than the mean score of test in cycle I (76.36>61.5). The implementation of Contextual teaching and learning (CLT) approach can make the students more active and enthusiast in learning process. Keywords: Students’ ability, expository text, contextual teaching and learning approach