Improving Students’ Descriptive Writing Skill by Using Content Based Instruction Approach at The Eight Grade Students of SMP Cahaya Pengharapan Abadi

Abstract

This study aims to determine the writing skills of class VIII Cahaya Pengharapan Abadi students. The formulation of the problem is: How is the application of the Content Based Instruction (CBI) approach to improve the writing skills of class VIII Cahaya Pengharapan Abadi students?. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the application of the content based instruction approach was able to improve the writing skills of class VIII Cahaya Pengharapan Abadi students. The researcher applied the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method. The population in this study were students of class VIII Cahaya Pengharapan Abadi, totaling 34 students. Researchers obtained qualitative data and quantitative data, the results showed an increase in students' writing skills using descriptive text, there were 80% who passed the KKM (60). These results come from the data in cycle I and cycle II. In the pre-test I in the enough to very good category there were 10 students who succeeded with a percentage of 29% and in the low to very low category there were 24 students who did not succeed with a percentage of 71%, and in the first cycle there were 18 students who succeeded with a percentage of 53% and there were 16 students who did not succeed with a percentage of 47% then in the second cycle there were 28 students who succeeded with a percentage of 80% and there were 6 students did not succeed with a percentage of 20% in post-test II. After the treatment, their writing aspect improved significantly. It can be said that the Content Based Instruction (CBI) approach can improve students' writing skills.