IMPROVING GRADE ELEVEN STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS THROUGH PEER EDITING IN SMA MUHAMMADIYAH KUTOARJO

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This research aimed at improving students’ skills of writing for the eleventh grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kutoarjo through the use of peer editing. It is expected that peer editing can be used to improve the students’ skills of writing in SMA Muhammadiyah Kutoarjo, especially at Class XI Social.
This research was an action research study that consisted of two cycles. In doing the research, the researcher involved 29 students of Class XI Social, one English teacher as the collaborator and the researcher herself. In this research, there were two kinds of data. The first data were qualitative. To obtain the qualitative data, the researcher conducted observation, interviews, and evaluating students’ writing tasks. The qualitative data were in the form of field notes, observation checklists result, interview transcripts, and students’ writing. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were presented in the score of the students’ writing from Cycle 1 to Cycle 2.
The result shows that the use of peer editing can improve students’ writing skills. Students’ writing problems can be reduced by applying peer editing. It facilitates the students to find and to correct their errors in the writing aspects, namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics. In reference to the students’ writing scores, the students’ ability in those five aspects of writing improved after peer editing strategy was used. The students’ mean value gained from students’ writing in Cycle 1 to Cycle 2 in the content aspect is 0.62; the organization aspect is 0.90; then the vocabulary aspect is 0.48; the language use aspect is 1.07; and the mechanics aspect is 0.87. Besides, peer editing can improve the students’ motivation to write because they got feedback on their writing and they got a different way in assessing writing. It also creates different classroom activities that are more enjoyable because they could find and correct their errors based on the feedback given on their writing.

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