Improving The Student Writing Skill on Descriptive Text By Using Think, Talk, Write (TTW) at MTs N Tunggangri

KeyWords : improving, Think, Talk, Write (TTW), Descriptive text Writing skill is an important skill because it will be applied in many aspects of life. In teaching and learning English, there are many strategies to teach students according to the materials or potencies of the students. One of strategies which suitable in teaching writing is Think-Talk-Write (TTW). This research is categoried as classroom action research (CAR). Grounded on the place of researcher did a research. The most of weakness of the students is on writing descriptive text. Researcher uses strategy think talk write for improving students writing skill on descriptive text. So this research was answered a single question. “How Can Think Talk Write (TTW) Improve Students writing descriptive text at Students MTsN Tunggangri?” The aim of this research is for improving students’ skill in writing specifically in writing descriptive text. So researcher was hope this research can truthful for improving students’ skill. This research is applied collaborative classroom action Research between the researcher and English teacher. The subject of the research was the VII-I students of MTsN Tunggangri kalidawir in the period 2014/2015 by 40 students with eighteen boys and twenty two girls. The researcher conducted two cycles that covered by planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. And each cycle consist of two meetings. The instruments of this research were questionnaires, interview Guideline, Observation sheet, Test, and field Note. The data of this research were students’ score during the process teaching and learning process which were analyzed descriptively. The criteria of success in this research were if mean the score of students’ ability on language function which consist of five aspect / criteria, that’s are: Content, Organization, Vocabulary, Grammar, Mechanics and group working. Based on the observation sheet from the analysis of the teaching and learning process in writing descriptive text by using think talk write strategy. In cycle 1, it was found that most of the students still have low in writing descriptive text. Although, some of them could get improvement in their score, but the criteria of success in not achieved yet. In conclusion, the implementation of the strategy in cycle 1 is still need to be revised. Based on the observation sheet from the analysis of the teaching and learning process in writing descriptive text by using think talk write in cycle 2, it was found most of the student got improvement in writing descriptive, the students more active during teaching and learning process. There were some pair works who could not achieve the criteria of success. They can’t achieve the SKM (Standard of minimum Score). So 32 from 40 students were success and the criteria of success could be achieved. The differences between cycle one and cycle two is in dividing the groups. On the first cycle, the researcher uses the groups work that arranged from five until six students. Whereas on the second cycle the researcher uses pairs work that arranged from two students. Finally this pairs works can get the successful maximally. The researcher expected to the English teacher for use think talk write strategy as one of many alternative strategy in teaching writing. And also the future researcher were expected to be able to conduct the similar research related with think talk write strategy as an alternative strategy in teaching writing in another setting involving under respondent of the experimental research as a comparison with the present study