Improving Students’ Writing Report Text Through Peer
Response Technique (A Classroom Action Research to the Eleventh
Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Tebas in the Academic Year of 2015/2016).This research was carried out in order to improve the students’ writing report
through Peer Response Technique to the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Tebas in
the academic year 2015/2016.
This research was done by using Classroom Action research (CAR) method.
The design of this Classroom Action Research was a Collaborative Classroom Action
Research that has been applied in order to solve the problems faced by the students of
XI IS 4 of SMA Negeri 1 Tebas. The participants of this research consist of 39
students in which there are 15 males and 24 females. The research was carried out in
two cycles. Each cycle consisted of two meetings. In order to get the data of this
research, the researcher used observation technique and measurement. Observation
checklist and field note as the tools of the research for collecting qualitative data and
written assessment for quantitative data.
The result of the research showed that Peer Response Technique can improve
students’ achievement in writing report text ability. Based on the finding of
qualitative data analysis, the students had increased their interest in learning report
text. In quantitative data analysis, most of the students also gradually gained
improvement in their scores from first to second cycle. The improvement of students
mean scores from 59.74 in first cycle and 71.92 in second cycle.