THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING STRATEGY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Imansyah Imansyah,Khorida Yan Hartina,Terasne Terasne

doi:10.25078/yb.v2i1.998

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This research was aimed at knowing whether Inquiry-Based Learning strategy enhanced students’ writing ability in descriptive text or not. The research was a classroom action research. The data collected through quantitative and qualitative ways. Quantitative data was gained from the result of pre-test and post-test from writing test. Meanwhile, qualitative data was gained from the result of observation sheets toward students’ and teachers activity. The instrument used by the researcher were test and observation sheet. The finding of the research shows that the strategy can improve the students’ writing ability in descriptive text. the improvement can be seen from the mean score of students from pre-test, post-test one, and post-test two. The mean score of pre-test was 69.5 (35%), there were seven students who passed the minimum passing grade, in the post-test one, 72.2 (60%), twelve students passed the minimum passing grade and in the post-test two, 78.25 (85%), seventeen students passed the minimum passing grade (KKM) from twenty students.

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Background of StudyWriting is one of an important ability that must be learned by the learners beside of other skills like speaking, reading, and listening
By some people writing could be called as the one of difficult ability to be learned by the learner especially in English because writing involves a complex cognitive activity, as defined by Heaton (1988: 135) stated that writing skill is complex and sometimes difficult to teach, requiring to master the grammatical and rhetorical devices and conceptual and judgmental elements. It means that writing is about arranging the words into complete sentences or paragraph and writing ability require the writers to follow the rule of grammar, organization, spelling, vocabulary and should have the concept in writing
RESEARCH METHOD The design of this research was classified as collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR)

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Background of StudyWriting is one of an important ability that must be learned by the learners beside of other skills like speaking, reading, and listening. By some people writing could be called as the one of difficult ability to be learned by the learner especially in English because writing involves a complex cognitive activity, as defined by Heaton (1988: 135) stated that writing skill is complex and sometimes difficult to teach, requiring to master the grammatical and rhetorical devices and conceptual and judgmental elements. It means that writing is about arranging the words into complete sentences or paragraph and writing ability require the writers to follow the rule of grammar, organization, spelling, vocabulary and should have the concept in writing.

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