THE USE OF ROUND TABLE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 SINTANG

ABSTRACT

Gabriela Apriani Koli. 2024. The Use Of Round Table Technique To Improve
Students‟ Writing Ability In Writing Narrative Text At Tenth Grade Of State
Senior High School 2 Sintang. Thesis. English Education Study Program of
STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa. Advisor I: Tuti, M.Pd. Advisor II: Henry Elisa,
M.Pd

Keywords: improving, narrative text, round table, writing

The background of this research was related to the students‟ learning participation
that passive in the classroom and students‟ writing ability that showed some
problems especially in produce narrative text. The aims of this study were to
know the improvement of students‟ participation in writing narrative text through
the implementation of Round Table Technique and the improvement of students‟
writing skill through the implementation of Round Table Technique. This
research employed classroom action research which conducted in two cycles,
every cycle conducted in 2 meetings. To collect the qualitative data, the writer
used several instrumentation including observation sheets, field note, interview
guideline. The writer also used measurement to collect quantitative data. The
result of this study was students' participation improvement that increased about
24%. In line with students' participation, the number of student scores increased
about 31. This suggests that the round table technique is effective in helping
students enhance their involvement and writing ability. The average student
participation and student scores have increased significantly at each cycle, it
demonstrating the efficacy of the round table technique. This indicated that the
round table technique was effective in increasing students' ability to write
narrative text for the tenth grade of State Senior High School 2 Sintang.