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ABSTRACT

Jumali, Muhammad, 2014. Improving Students Writing Skill Through Guided

Questions at the Second Year Students of MTs. Mambaul Ulum II

Tlontoraja Pasean Pamekasan. Thesis, English Education Department,

Advisor Slamet Riyanto M. Pd

Key Words: Students, Writing skill, Guided questions

Writing skill is one of the important competences that should be mastered

by students, because this language is not only in spoken form, but also it can be

used in written form. The writer found on the second semester, the students at the

2ndyear class had unsatisfied average study result, especially in their writing skill.The researcher formulates the statement of the problem is as follows: How

can the application of guided questions learning method improve students writing

skill at the second year students of MTs Mansyaul Ulum Sana Daya Pasean

Pamekasan in the Academic Year of 2013/2014?. The objectives of the study in

the research are: To describe the way of the application of guided questions

learning method improves students writing skill at the second year class ofMTs.

Mambaul Ulum II Tlontoraja Pasean Pamekasan.

This research was conducted based on Classroom Action Research (CAR)

design. The data sources are the students at the second year of MTs. Mambaul

Ulum II Tlontoraja Pasean Pamekasan. The number of the students is 36 students.

It consisted of 22 female students and 14 male students. All of them are observed

in this research.

In preliminary study, students who were able to achieve successful of

writing skill were only 5 students (16,66%), while the rest were unsuccessful as

many as 25 students. In cycle 1, when the students were given guided questions

learning method, students who were able to achieve successful of writing skill

were increased becoming 12 students (40%). However, it had not reached the

criteria of success, because it had not reached 75%. In cycle 2, it was showed that

students who were able to achieve successful of writing skill were increased

becoming 23 students (76,66%). Thus, it had reached the criteria of success,

because students with score above 70 were more than 75%.The conclusion is the students writing skill can be improve by using guided

question strategy. It can be proven that the students writing score is increased 60

% after using the guided question strategy.