The background of the study in this research is based on the phenomenon that student have difficulties in writing procedure text because the teacher just explains the material orally without being supported by teaching aids. The result is the students’ ability to write is low. To improve students’ ability in writing procedure text, the teacher needs a strategy through using an aid that facilitates on writing procedure text. Demonstration is one of aid that can be used in teaching writing procedure text. Using realia, students are able to write procedure text easily.
This research is aimed at finding the answer to the following research questions.
How is students’ improvement of procedure text writing at the seventh grade of MTs. Al Islam Jepara in the academic year of 2014/2015, after being taught through using demonstration?
How is students’ engagement improvement in teaching learning process of procedure text at the seventh grade of MTs. Al Islam Jepara in the academic year of 2014/2015 after being taught through using demonstration?
Its objectives are:
Identify the improvement of students’ ability in writing procedure text, in the seventh grade students of MTs. Al Islam Jepara in the academic year of 2014/2015.
Identify the students’ engagement in teaching learning process of procedure text, in the seventh grade of MTs. Al Islam Jepara in the academic year of 2014/2015 after being taught through using demonstration?.
This research is a classroom action research. It was done through two cycles with different types of demonstration, subject, data collection and analysis technique. The most problem occurred at the first cycle. It happened because students felt difficult with the material although they had heard before. They also felt unfamiliar with some of difficult words within the text. In the second cycle, they could write better because they were divided in groups, they were motivated in writing procedure text. They also gave full attention to teacher’s explanation.
In this research, the writer took a test of their improvement in each cycle. The mean of students’ writing score in the first cycle was 64.9, with the highest and the lowest score of 70and 55. The mean of students’ writing score in the second cycle was 72.3, with the highest and the lowest score of 86 and 57.Finally the result of this research shows that students’ ability was improved in each cycle after they were taught using demonstration. They were better in their procedure text’s writing. It was signed by their improvements of each writing component, i.e.: content, organization,
vocabulary, language use and mechanic.