THE USE OF LEARNING ENGLISH FIELD TRIP(LEFT)
IN TEACHING WRITING SKILL OF THE STUDENTS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS
MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
By:
MEI INTAN PERMATASARI
A320130079
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA
2015
THE USE OF LEARNING ENGLISH FIELD TRIP (LEFT)
IN TEACHING WRITING SKILL OF THE STUDENTS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS
MUHAMMADIYAH SURAKARTA
I. Introduction
A.
Background
of the Study
Writing
skill is a very important in life, not only in education but also very
important in people’s life. Writing skill is a very important because it is one
of language skills which must be owned by the students. By writing students can
reveal or express their ideas or opinions, thoughts, and feelings that are
owned.
Writing skill is one of the language skills learned by students at
school. Through writing skills, students are required to be creative and active
in thinking and active in expressing its ideas into written language. According
to Solehan, et al (2008: 9), the ability to write is not a capability that is
obtained automatically. According to Solehan (2008: 9) explains that the
ability to write one's not innate, but rather acquired through acts of
learning. Related to the way the acquisition of writing skills, someone who has
gained teaching of writing does not necessarily have the competence to write
reliably without a lot of practice writing.
Now, many people learning to write descriptions doing with the conventionally.
In this sense that students are given a written description of the theory and
then the students see examples and finally the students were assigned to create
a paragraph. Therefore, the situation of learning about the writing skill would
make students feel bored. Therefore, the use of the method of this field trip was
made due to the students in receiving the teaching of writing yet to get an
understanding. Field trip to the method applied in writing class aims for
younger students in obtaining ideas. This method is also used as a means to
choose the title of the proposal “The Use of Learning English Field Trip (LEFT)
in Teaching Writing Skill of the Students English Department of Universitas
Muhammadiyah Surakarta”. In this study, Learning English Field Trip (LEFT) in
teaching writing skill to teach the students of 2nd semester English
department.
This Learning English Field Trip (LEFT)
method will be more appealing because students can walk and study tour to
visiting the beautiful sights and interesting. Then, after their study tour and
see what they see and feel the students of 2nd semester have to
write and to make the writing of scientific papers. With them to make this
scientific work we can see some of their writings of various kinds. Although
not all students write well and correctly it would make students more
experience in writing.
B. Scope of the Study
Scope of the study means the range of focus covered by
this study. This investigation is limited to the process of Learning English
Field Trip (LEFT) in teaching writing skill on the Universitas Muhammadiyah
Surakarta in Academic year 2014/2015. In this case the visiting the place and
kinds of transportation by bus and the others took the pictures in to the
materials the student ability acquiring new writing skill. Especially on the
one skill of learning English such as writing skill.
C.
Problem
Statements
Based on the background of the study,
the researcher formulates the problems of the study as follows:
1.
How
is the procedure of Learning English Field Trip (LEFT) to teach writing skills
in 2nd students English Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah
Surakarta?
2. What are
the strengths and weakness in the use of the method of Learning English Field
Trip (LEFT) to teach in 2nd students English Department at
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta?
D. Objectives
of the Study
1. To describe procedure of Learning
English Field Trip (LEFT) to teach writing skills in 2nd students
English Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta and with the procedure
make students feel happy and enthusiastic to join this activity is not as usual
is just sitting in class only.
2. To find the strength and weakness of this technique is to
carry out field trips students can gain direct experience of the object it saw
can be responsible, but of course there are the strengths and weakness in the
use of the method of Learning English Field Trip (LEFT) to teach in 2nd
students English Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.
E.Significance
of the Study
The
writer hopes that this research will have some benefits in the English
teaching-learning process, especially in teaching-learning writing. There are
two kinds of benefits in this research, theoretical and practical. It is as
follow:
1. Theoretical
Benefits:
Learning
English Field Trip (LEFT) is journey understand by learners to acquire learning
experience. While field trip rather than as a special learning meaningful
tourism activities in general. Field trip means was out of school classes to
learn. In other words, a field is a learning method that is performed by the
students on a visit a particular place or object outside of school to learn
something like that or investigations show in a shoe, factory, a car repair
shop, trade and others.
2. Practical
Benefits
This
study aims to improve writing skills. To find out how the application method on a Learning English Field Trip (LEFT)
learn to write. Is the trip method
can in teaching writing skills? The benefits of research, among others:
1. For
teacher or lecturer
Hopefully, the result could be used
as one way to improve students’ writing skills through methods of field trip.
The teacher can apply various techniques in teaching field trip so that the
students are motivated and interested to learn more and more.
2. For
students
The writer hopes that the students
are motivated in learning field trip interesting technique and they can enhance
their writing so they are able to expand the other skills of English. This
study can encourage students English Department to conduct further research to
conduct further research on how to develop students writing skill through field
trips.
3. For
English department
The writer hopes that the result of
this study can be useful for the school in implementation of various techniques
in teaching English and being consideration to be implemented by the teacher
based on the curriculum used in the school.
4. For
other researchers
Hopefully, the result of this study
can be used as reference and guidance in conducting research, especially
research on teaching field trip. This can be a reference to determine the
capability and errors in writing a text description of the student.
II. Underlying Theory
A.
Previous
Study
The first research by Susanto
(2006) in her little of research is “The use of Diary in Teaching Writing Skill
of the Students of SMA N 1 Jekulo Kudus”. She observed the teacher in writing
with cause by classroom activities, used the picture as the media in teaching
writing to the students, and limited times in teaching process.
The second research by Lina (2011) entitled “Teaching
Writing Trough Guided Method to the Eight Grade Students of the state SMPN 15 Palembang in 2010/2011 Academic Year”. In her research, she discussed
interaction between teacher and students in writing class. The other hand, she
described types and characteristic of interaction.
My research is “The use of Learning English
Field Trip (LEFT) in Teaching Writing Skill of the Students English Department
of Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta”. From the previous researches, we have
same field on discuss, which is in
writing hot we are different in discussing aspect. Here, my research is focus
on process teaching and learning via field trip, how to teaching learning writing
in class, and techniques of teacher to teach the students.
B. Theoritical Review
1.
The Notion of Writing
According to Radjiman (2001:270) “Writing
is functional communication, making learners possible to create imagined worlds
of their own.” Writing as one of four
language skills is considered as a difficult skill because the writer should
make some aspects in writing such as content, organization, purpose,
vocabulary, punctuation, and spelling. Writing is the activity or occupation of
writing, for example books, stories, or articles. We can take more times to
think and choose words in order to express our idea, thought, and feeling. We
can still make editing or revision if it is not so clear to express what
intends to write. Writing is a progressive activity. The after you have
finished writing, you have read over what you have written and make changes and
corrections.
Therefore, writing is never a
one step actions, it is a process that has several steps. Writing is a
discovery process that involves discovering ideas, how to organize them and
what that you want to put over to your order, so a lot of what a writer does as
a writer doesn’t actually appear on page. It is a means of communication
whenever the writer want to write, he has to knowing the audience or reader, it
will help in teaching the goal of communicating clearly and effectively.
Communication
in writing tends to involve a thinking process because writing requires the
process because writing requires the process of selecting and organizing ideas.
It means that writing is a way to produce language that comes from our thought.
In the writing process, the writer tries to developing their ideas and feelings
to produce into a good sentence, in order to inform the other.
2.
The Concept of Writing
According
to Oshima and Hogue (1983: 2) state that a paragraph writing is a basic unit
organization in writing in which a group of related sentences develops one main
idea. They further explain that three major structural parts of paragraph of:
the topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. It can be
said that writing is: (1) a. the
act of one who writes, b. the act, practice, or occupation of literary
composition. (2) a. a written letter or words, b. a written or printed, notice,
document (3) Composition in specific manner or for a specific purpose.
3. Types
of Writing
The type of writing system which exists
in the native language is a important factor in determining to easy of speech
with which students learn to write. There are two types of writing.
1. Practical
Writing
This
type deals with the fact and functional writing. It is purposed to special goal
that we can find it in letters, papers, summaries, outlines, essays, etc.
2. Creative
or Imaginary Writing
This type usually exists in
literature. Such as novel, romance, poem, short story, science fiction, etc.
4. The
Strategies of Teaching Writing
Writing
is the activity of creating pieces of written work, such as stories, poems, or
articles. Thinking is the basic of writing. Writing is a complex process that
allows writers to explore thought and ideas. Writing is a method of
representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of
symbols to represent the sounds of speech, and may also have symbols for such
things as punctuation and numerals. Writing strategist expands, extend, and
elaborate. Text is conventional form for organizing messages in a structured
way that the purposes of the participants in the communication. Field trip is a
learning that tells us about activities what happened in series of events in
vacation.
Field
trip can be the students enjoy and happiness to doing the activities.
Therefore, every student everywhere sure wants to interesting studying. Like a
field trip it is makes their enjoyable and suitable to express and writing
every activities their do. In the era, the students of course always want to
the new idea. This method like studying via field trip so there are can be
doing the activities and explore the writing.
5. Method
of Field Trip
Field trip can be interpreted as a field trip or a
field visit. According to Roesiyah (2001:85) state that the method field trip
as a method of teaching that is done by getting students to a place or object
outside of school to learn or investigate something interesting. According to
Sagala (2006:214) state that field trip method is a method of learning of the
students under the guidance of teachers visiting certain places with the intent
to learn. A method of field trip in writing is a description technique that can
allow students to pour ideas into written form.
Advantages of the methods field trip:
1. Improve
the quality of teaching writing student, marked by the emergence of active
students in following the teaching of writing skills.
2. Streamline
the student in learning (active asking, or provide feedback).
3. Easier
for students to pour ideas into written form.
4. Students
can obtain direct experience of the object the saw. By looking at objects
directly, the imagination of the students will also be developed.
5. Students
more comfortable and happy when learning takes places. Disadvantages of the methods field trip:
1.
Takes a long time.
2.
Cost quite a lot.
3.
Teacher requires extra energy to guide students.
III. Research Method
A.
Type of the Research
In
this research the writer uses descriptive qualitative method to produce the
types of writing skill and describe the data. The writer also describes field
trip used in writing skill.
This
research has been told for the purpose of understanding the phenomena of field
trip in teaching writing skill. Due to the purpose of the research the writers
determine this research uses of qualitative method.
The
descriptive qualitative research which is uses qualitative research and the
result of analysis will be presented descriptively to answer the question in
the formulation of the problems.
B.
Data
and Data Source
The data in this research are in the form
of note, containing field trip made by students of writing skill class during
the lesson. The data are taken when the subject of the research writing skill
class P, Q, R, and S have their lesson; each class of writing skill is approximately
attended by 40 students. The total number of students of writing class is 140.
C.
Method
of Collecting Data
Data
collection becomes the most important part of this research.
There are four major in method of
collecting data in qualitative researcher, covers, observation analyzing text,
interview, and the last recording and transcription.
D.
Data
Analysis
The data are analyzed through classification and categories of
the data. Data analysis is a simplification process of data into more simple
from which is easy to be interpreted. This study uses descriptive analysis
method.
In
analyzing data had been collected, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative
research. As using this technique, the researcher collects data, arranges data
and presents the qualitative method is kind of research without using any
calculation or statistic procedure. (Silver, 1999:5)
E.
Data
Credibility
According
to Sugiono (2012) state that a test of confidence in the credibility of the
data or data from qualitative research among others, by the extension of the
observation, increase the persistence, triangulation, analysis of negative
cases, use of reference materials, and held member check.
