PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS PUISI MELALUI METODE LATIHAN

Abstract

NENENG ELIANA, THE EFFORTS TO INCREASE POETRY WRITING ABILITY THROUGH PRACTICE METHOD, Action Research in 16 Panjak Common Primary School, Sahan Village, Seluas Sub-district, Bengkayang District, West Borneo Province. The purpose in this research is to find the increase of poetry writing ability through practice method. The research was conducted in 16 Panjak Common Primary School, Sahan Village, Seluas Sub-district, Bengkayang District, West Borneo Province. The implementation of this research started from February until April 2015 with 37students in the third grade of elementary schools as the subject sampling and one as an observer. The method used in this research is action research referred to action research from Kemmis and Taggart, where's the one cycle of activity consists of 4 components, which are planning, action, monitoring, and reflection. This research consists of 2 cycles with 6 actions. Data analysis in this paper use qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data was obtain by monitoring along intervention act recorded in field research notes and monitoring notes, while quantitative data was obtain by comparing first assessment average score (before action was given) and last assessment score (after action was given). This research finds that there's increasing in ability to write the poetry through practice method. With evidence that there's increasing score, where in first assessment the average score is 5.87, while in the second cycle, the average score is 9.05 out of 12. This showed an increasing average score by 26%.