The Use of Peer Lesson Technique to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Hortatory Exposition Paragraph

Abstract

This study concern on using peer lesson technique to improve students’ ability in writing hortatory exposition paragraph. The subject of research of this study was tenth grade students’ of SMK PAB-2 Helvetia. There were only one class,consisted of 40 students’. The techniques for collecting the data were conducted by administrating two cycles. Each cycles have four stage,they were:planning, action,observation, and reflection in which every cycle consisted of three meetings. The instrument for collecting data were quantitave (create an essay the hortatory exposition paragraph) and qualitative data (observation sheet and questionnaire sheet). Based on the score matching the word students’ score keep improving in every test. In the first cycle test the mean score was 69,5 and in second cycle test the mean score was 89. The Improvement can also be seen from the percentage of students' writing skills in the competency test in the first cycle of 42.5% (17 students) of the number of students who reached KKM got 75 points .In the competency test in the second cycle of 95% (38 students) got 75 points. It means there was an improvement about 52,5%. The conclution is that the use of peer lesson technique can increas students’ learning outcomes and increasing students’ activities in learning by using peer lesson technique can be said to be effective in improve students’ writing ability. It means that learning activity through Peer Lesson Technique able to motivate the students’ intellectual.