The Use of SWELL Method to the students’ Acievement at Tenth Grade SMA Harapan Mekar

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the usability of SWELL method in teaching writing descriptive text.This research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research was tenth grade of SMA Harapan Mekar in academic year 2019/2020 which consisted of 20 students. The objective of this research was to investigate the use of SWELL method on teaching writing descriptive text. This research was conducted in two cycles which each consists’ of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data were gathered through quantitative and qualitative data. The result of this reserach showed that there was increasing of students in writing. The mean of pre-test was 51.8. The mean of post-test 1 was 70.25. the mean of post-test 2 was 82.25. It indicated that the scores and the mean in second cycle were better than the first cycle. The percentage of students who got point >75 also grew up. In the pre-Test, the students who got point >75 up were 2 students (10%). In the post-test of cycle 1 students who got point >75 up were 12 students (60%). The post-test of cycle 2, students who got point >75 were 16 students (80%). In other words, the students’ are more interest and motivate in writing descriptive text during teaching and learning process by used SWELL method. The result shows that ability in writing descriptive became well in the first meeting to the next meeting by used SWELL method.