Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to find out of the improving students writing ability using peer evaluation at SMP Negeri 1 Rambah Hilir. The design of this research is classroom action research the data were collected by distributing the test to the students of participants. There were two techniques in collecting the data. They were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test has been conducted to find the ability of students’ writing ability before teaching by using Peer Evaluation. After giving pre-test, the treatment has been done by using Peer Evaluation. The participants of this research were the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Rambah Hilir. The total population is 40 students of the tenth grade. This research used a cluster sampling technique to get samples. The total . In this research, the data were collected by distributing the test to the students of participants. There were two techniques in collecting the data. They were pre-test and post-test. The result showed that there are increasing average scores of students from 55.96 (Pre-Test), to 61.00 (Post-Test 1), and 70.58 (Post-Test 2).It means that using Peer Evaluation in teaching writing is effective to improve students’ ability in writing a recount text
Highlights
People need to learn to write in English for occupational or academic purposes that can support their carrier in the future
Action research was done to acquire information in order to solve the problems that are faced in certain condition or situation
Kemmis and Taggart (2014: 5) states that a classroom action research is a form of collective self-reflective enquiry undertake by participants in social justice of their own social or educational practices, as well as their understanding of these practices and the situation in which the practices are carried out
Summary
People need to learn to write in English for occupational or academic purposes that can support their carrier in the future. Students at all level from elementary school until senior high school and university should be mastering writing skill well. Writing is one of the language skills in English. It plays an important role to convey ideas, messages, feelings and others. Hughey (2001: 33) says, “Through writing we express our feelings, hopes, dreams and joys as well as our fears, angers and frustrations”. Writers deliver their ideas or messages to the readers indirectly. It means the writer cannot correct the errors or revise the statements to the readers directly. When the writers are producing ideas or messages, they should determine what to write; they should have something meaningful to convey
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