Improving students’ writing skill through brainstorming technique at seventh grade of SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Barat.

This study was told about improving students’ writing skill through brainstorming technique at SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. Most of students couldn’t write English well. This caused by students’ internal and external factors. Students didn’t have desire to write English, students didn’t have interest in writing English, and English teachers didn’t have appropriate method and used media in teaching learning. Based on the general problem above the formulation in this research was “does brainstorming technique improve the students writing skill at VII grade SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Barat? Then study aims in improving students’ writing skill through brainstorming technique at SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Barat was to explain the effectiveness of brainstorming technique in improving students’ writing ability. This research was done by using classroom action research by collaborative. The action in this research was done in two cycles. Each cycle consist two meeting and four steps. They were planning action, action, observation and reflection. To solve the problem, the writer implemented brainstorming technique based on the picture and keyword. The participant of this study was one class consisted of 32 students. Writing test was the instrument of collecting the data. The research result saw the progressive mean of the students. In first cycle was 64.7 or improvement percentage was 21.16%, in second cycle was 79.6 or improvement percentage was 49.06%. The mean in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. The data from the test result indicated that the students got improvement. It indicated that the application of brainstorming technique improve the students writing skill. In conclusion, brainstorming technique could improve students’ writing skill at SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Barat. Hopefully, the research result could be positive input for other researchers and teachers to conduct further research, particularly in writing issue