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

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.