THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENRE-BASED APPROACH IN IMPROVING THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMA N 12 PEKANBARU

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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENRE-BASED APPROACH IN IMPROVING THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMA N 12 PEKANBARU Hotriana Simarmata, Syofia Delfi, Fakhri Ras Student of English Language Education Department Faculty of Teacher’s Training and Education Riau University Abstract One of possible ways of increasing writing ability is using Genre Based Approach. This article is based on research finding in answering the research questions: Can Genre-based Approach improving the ability of the second year students of SMA Negeri 12 Pekanbaru in writing narrative text? How is the effect Genre-based Approach in improving the students’ ability at the second year students of SMA 12 Negeri Pekanbaru in writing narrative text? The design of this paper is Classroom Action Research. The data were collected from a pretest, post test and also a set of observation sheets and field notes were used to gain the record of the classroom activity during the Genre Based Approach treatment. After two cycles of the Genre Based Approach treatment, it was found that the students’ writing skill can significantly improved in terms of the schematic structure and linguistic features. However, the statistically significant differences of the score results of the two cycles were found on the Post-test 2, where about 93.93% of the students reached the school minimum standard of English subject (72) in writing narrative text. The students’ activeness during the Genre Based Approach also improved from one meeting to others. Regarding the effectiveness of the Genre Based Approach on the observation sheets and field notes results showed that the students had positive attitudes towards and make the class more interesting. Based on these findings, the researcher believes that Genre Based Approach has the potential to improve students’ writing ability. Therefore she recommended that Genre Based Approach be applied in the teaching writing.