The use of think talk write technique to improve students’ creative writing skills in narrative text (a classroom action research in the eight grade students of MTs Abadiyah Gabus, Pati in the academic year 2015/2016)

This research was based on the students’ difficulties in writing narrative text. The students have good interest in writing narrative text unfortunately; they were difficult to deliver their idea in the written form. They were needed stimulation of the teacher in delivering their idea. The teachers were needed a new technique in teaching writing to improve students writing skills in narrative text. Think Talk Write Technique aimed to help students in writing narrative text creatively. The questions of this research were: (1) The implementation of Think Talk Write Technique to improve students’ creative writing skill in narrative text. (2) The improvement of the students’ creative writing skill in narrative after being taught by using Think Talk Write Technique. The purposes of this research were: (1) To know the implementation of Think Talk Write Technique to improve students’ creative writing skill in narrative. (2)To know the improvement of students’ creative writing skill in narrative after being taught by using Think Talk Write Technique. This classroom action research was done in two cycles. The subject of this study is the Eighth Grade Students (Class A) of MTs ABADIYAH Gabus Pati. This class consists of 27 students. This research was using test and observation as the data collection technique. In the pre-cycle, the students taught by the teacher using another technique. The students’ score in pre-cycle was 55.18 or 55.18%. In cycle 1 the students got 57.37 or 57.37%. In cycle 2 the students got 76.96 or 76.96%. The result of the research showed that there was a significantly different students’ achievement in every cycle. In the learning activity showed that the students pay good attention to the teacher. It can be seen in the cycle 1, the students pay good attention but difficult in writing narrative text. In the cycle 2 the students pay good attention and they can write narrative text with enjoy. Based on the result of the research showed that the students achievement in writing narrative text were improved through teaching narrative text by using Think Talk Write Technique. It can be recommended that the students’ creative writing skill in narrative text could be improved by using Think Talk Write Technique