The use of Two Stay Two Stray method to improve student writing ability in recount text (a classroom cction research with eighth the graders of MTs Al Asror Semarang in the academic year of 2015/2016)

This study is focused on writing. Writing is important to be learnt because it is the way to communicate with other people, but in fact the students’ ability in writing is low. It is caused by students’ limitation in mastering the element of writing text is low. In this research, the researcher used Two Stay Two Stray method to improve students writing skill. This study is aimed at responding the following question: (1) How is the use of Two Stay Two Stray method to improve students writing ability in writing recount text in the Eighth Graders of MTs Al Asror Semarang in Academic Year of 2015/2016? (2) How is student ability in writing recount text after taught by using Two Stay Two Stray method in the Eighth Graders of MTs Al Asror Semarang in Academic Year of 2015/2016? Then the objective of this study was to describe the use of Two Stay Two Stray method to improve students writing ability in writing recount text. And to identify the students ability in writing recount text after being taught by using Two Stay Two Stray as a method. In this study, the researcher conducted a classroom action research as the method of this research. There were three meeting during the research; they were pre-cycle test, cycle test 1 and cycle test II. The researcher used written test and observation checklist in collecting the data. The using of written test was to measure the student’s skill in writing recount text after giving treatment, and the using of observation was to monitor student’s activities during teaching learning process. The result of the test showed that the average students score in the pre-cycle test was 67.8, it meant fair. And the observation result of students achievement was 45%, it also meant fair. In the first cycle, the students test got 78.3, whereas the observation of students achievement score got 70%. Based on the result of first cycle, it showed good. And in the second cycle students test got 87.6, and the observation of the students achievement score got 85%, it meant excellent. Teaching learning process ran well. From the result of the study, it can be stated that the using of Two Stay Two Stray was effective and very useful. It can be seen from improvement of students test result during pre-cycle, cycle I and cycle II. However, it will be better if the future related studies the treatment gave more than two times, not only cycle I and cycle II. This study have key words, those were Two Stay Two Stray Method, Writing, Recount Text. The result of this study is expected to be information and new knowledge about method in teaching writing especially recount text text for teacher of English subject