The background of the study in this research was the students still have difficulties in understanding organization of procedure text especially in writing skill. Students only depend on their imagination to write procedure text, so it is not enough to get the idea in writing and the teacher still used conventional methods; the teacher only explained the material by using speech so the students are easy to get bored. To facilitate students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text, the teacher used realia as the media in teaching process.
This study only focuses on teaching writing procedure text by using realia as the media. And the problem in this research can be stated as follows:
1. How is the implementation of using realia to facilitate students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text at the first grade of SMP NU 1 Bumijawa Tegal?
2. How is the improvement of students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text at the first grade of SMP NU 1 Bumijawa Tegal after being taught using realia?
The objectives of this study are (1) to describe the implementation of using realia to facilitate students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text at the first grade of SMP NU 1 Bunijawa Tegal, (2) to find out the improvement of students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text at the first grade of SMP NU 1 Bumijawa Tegal after taught using realia.
The method of research that used was classroom action research with the reason the teacher can develop and repair their skills in giving the material to the students. The techniques used to collect the data were documentation, observation, and test. In pre cycle, before doing pre test, the teacher used conventional method (speech) to teach the students. The teaching process in cycle 1 until cycle 3, the teacher taught writing procedure text by using realia as the media; the teacher demonstrated a procedure of doing something by using realia and gave students test.
The result of study shows that there was improvement of students’ understanding in writing organization of procedure text. This is proved by the result of the tests that show the improvement from pre cycle, cycle 1, cycle 2 and cycle 3. In the pre cycle was gotten the average of students’ score 44. It means that the value of students’ achievement was poor. It increased in cycle 1 with the average of students’ score 59.2. It means that the value of students’ achievement was near of fair. It increased in cycle 2 with the average of students’ score 70.4. It means that the value of students’ achievement was fair. In the last cycle (cycle 3) the average of students’ score was 80. It means that the value of students’ achievement in learning writing procedure text was good.