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INTRODUCTION
communication but also for educational side and the other sides. English
education is very important for all students from basic school until universities.
form. Besides listening and speaking, the students of senior high school are
Language has to be able to find the best way in teaching writing in order to
make senior high school students able to write as what the curriculum requires
(2007:112) who says that there are two reasons of teaching writing, “writing
for learning” where writing is used as a practical tool to help students practice
and work with the language, and “writing for writing” where students are
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that we are free to express everything on our mind, feelings, and also
process not a product, because it is not easy and it takes time to study and
many aspects before they write. They have to think about idea and deliver it in
words using good organization based on the text organization of genre. Writing
involves expressing the ideas that come from mind in written form.
producing the text. The researcher found some problems related with the
When the researcher asked the class to write a text that has learn in
Nobody of students could finish their compositions on time. There were some
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students who just wrote four lines, six lines, and even there were some
students whose paper was still white. They did not know what to write
eventhough the researcher gave freedom to chose what topic they wanted.
Some students even got difficult in putting and ordering their ideas into their
writing. It made them became lazy to finish their composition and even made
Beside that, the researcher found that the students were lack of
vocabularies. It can be seen when they were making the composition. Very
often students asked the researcher the words that they did not know in
English. Some students were just silent without finishing their composition
because there were many vocabularies that they did not know. Some students
did not bring dictionary. They were also lazy to ask to the researcher or to
Furthermore, in language use and generic structure they also did not
understand completely. They did not know tenses that they will use. They just
put the verb which they know (eventhough it was wrong tenses). So did in
generic structure. There were some of them did not understand. They did not
know how they start their writing. They felt difficult to arrange easy
sentences.
Beside that, the researcher also aksed the teacher about students’
weakness in writing. Generally the teacher said that students had several
writing activity. Second, students had less vocabulary so that it is hard for
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them to do writing. Third, students was difficult to memorize what they have
Here is the table above shows the data about student’s achievement in
writing:
Table I
Students’ Writing Score at Class XI IPS1
ASPECTS Mean
NO STUDENTS C O V L M score
(30) (20) (20) (25) (5) ( 100 )
1 22 Students 18.59 13.22 13.81 16.54 3.09 65.27
KKM = 75
Source: the students writing’s score in hortatory exposition text of XI
grade Senior High School 5 Pariaman
From the figures above, it can be seen that the students had problems in
writing because they could not produce a hortatory exposition text well. The
students had problem in generating their idea. It could be seen from their
not be done by the reader. Yet, in the first figure, the researcher could not find
the recommendation of the text. The thesis and the argument of the text are
also not clear. In the second figure the researcher also could not find the
recommendation. The thesis and arguments are also not clear like the first
figure. The students still had weaknesses in arrange their idea in their writing.
Researcher also found that many students had limited vocabulary. They
do not have enough vocabulary to produce a text. The teacher asked them to
bring dictionary, but almost of them did not bring it. It caused they were
difficult to find out the meaning of the word. They were often use inappropriate
vocabulary (e.g. Shalat is worship people Islam to allah or god, people shalat to
face seen bright and clear and always happy, when house clean). The students
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also had weaknesses in produce sentences. It can be seen there were too much
Islam, people sholat) subject pronoun (e.g person, we) noun phrase (e.g area
circle house) the students also had weaknesses in using mechanics. There were
some error on using capital letter (e. g. allah, we), wrong spelling (becaus, )
Based on the problem above, teacher should find and apply a good
strategy in teaching writing. It is needed for making the students have good
writing process run successfully. Thus, teachers have a big role in finding and
strategies that can be use is Draw Label Caption Strategy. This strategy let
the students interested to learn and they can share their idea to their
teammates. The researcher wants to prove whether with using Draw Label
writing skill. Based on the researcher observed it found that the English
teacher never use this strategy. Because of that, the researcher intended to
conduct the research with title: “The Effect of Draw Label Caption (DLC)
Based on the background of the problem above, there are many factors
that writing is difficult for the students. Most of Senior High School 5
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Pariaman students still have difficulties in writing. In this case, the problem
happen at Senior High School 5 Pariaman, the researcher found that the
students faced problem in writing because they had to consider many aspects.
The problem that was found in writing skill, especially in writing a Hortatory
and also mechanics when they are writing. The students don’t understand well
know how to develop their idea. Therefore it makes them get difficult in
to the effect of DLC Strategy toward writing ability XI IPS at Senior High
School 5 Pariaman.
this research was formulated as follow: “Does Draw Label Caption (DLC)
School 5 Pariaman.
the skills to be mastered by the students. They are required to understand and
this research, it is expected that the students gain essential perspective about
writing. This research is useful for the researcher as the addition of knowledge
Through this research, researcher expects that the problem solving that
is offered in this study gives contribution to the teachers where they may
choose and apply one of the various strategies in teaching and learning process
to improve students’ writing skills. In this case, the teachers should consider
writing. Students feel enjoy and comfortable to write because they have a
guidance to help and lead them in doing writing activity. They will get good
result after applying Draw Label Caption (DLC) Strategy. Finally, this
research, hopefully, may serve as one of the resources for further studies of the
same field.
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To avoid miss understanding about the terms used in this study, the
Podlewski (2013:11)