The Improvement of Student’s Ability in Writing Descriptive Text Through Peer Teaching at Grade XI at Mas Nur Ibrahimy Rantauprapat 2017/2018.

Abstract

This research aims to describe that improving the Writing Skill by using Peer Teaching at grade XI of students in MAS Nur Ibrahimy Rantauprapat in the academic year 2016/2017 and total of the students in the class was 35 students. This research conducted as Classroom Action Research (CAR) who conducted for two cycles, while each cycle consisting of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. From the results of the learning improvement that has been implemented it can be concluded Most of the students were tested on the first cycle by using Peer Teaching only a few students who managed to answer the questions given that 7 (20%) students who completed and 28 (80%) of students who have not completed. In the second cycle after the repair complete student in answering questions that tested as many as 22 students (62.86%) students who completed, and students who have not completed as much as 13 (37.14%).  This showed an increase of 10.52% after the implementation of the improvement in Cycle II. There is an increased student achievement through learning Peer Teaching on the material that is standardized simple present tense. The result showed that implementation Peer Teaching is affective toward activity, learning interest and inproving their ability in writing English at MAS Nur Ibrahimy Rantauprapat.