Improving Writing Skill in Narrative Text of The First Grader of MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo by Using Gallery Walk Strategy

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I. INTRODUCTION
Writing is a skill that required in written communication.It requires complex thinking.A good writing is not always easy and may be challenging even for the best students.Commonly, Indonesian prefer a long conversation with the limited goals.Palmer, Hafner, and Sharp (1994) state that "if the goal of writing is to communicate meaning to ourselves and others, thinking will occur as the writer (1) generates ideas, thoughts, and images; (2) creates an order to those thoughts; and (3) communicates this meaning to others through interesting text that, ideally, is well written." The commonly problem that students face during writing assignment or just to communicate with written text is their worried about certain based causes such as minimal vocabulary, word choices, coherence, and cohesion among sentences and their less of practicing writing.Moreover, they could not have a glance of idea if their teacher may offer them to tell the story in narrative text, then describe whatever they would in descriptive text and so on.
To overcome the problem in the class and to improve students writing skill especially narrative text, Hamalik (1994) states that "using media in the process of teaching and learning can increase willingness and new interest.Increase students' motivation in the process teaching and learning and even bring psychology effects for the students.Visual media is one of teaching media that can help to improve students writing ability".
Besides, when researcher observed to Islamic Senior High School (Madrasah Aliyah Al-Mahrusiyah), it is proved that characteristic of students there were like to be passive in English because of English is a difficult subject to learn.They also felt bored through activity inside their boarding school.Their whole day was filling with the duty and usual activity almost with the same person and or group, so that they have a big hope to get some refresh activities during their formal school.As long as teaching learning of narrative text writing in the first grade of senior high school (MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo) is low.In fact, the teacher was standing there almost using conventional strategy and have limited idea to create some creative strategies to improve their skill eventhough to inspire them in learning English.Concerning their problems and English learning teaching there, researcher uses media espesially visual media to improve their ability in writing English.
The purpose of this media is helping the teacher and the students through English learning teaching to get the learning's goals.It does not switch the teacher's part and position, but it makes additional information as manner to deliver the lesson fast and easily to the students.According to Levie and Lentz (1982) there are four functions of using media, there are: 1) Attention function is media for interest and help the students for concrete with the lesson that have a visual meaning, especially pictures can help the students to understand easily the lesson because this media is more interesting so the students can accept the lesson bigger; 2) Effective Function is visual media can make students like read or write with a picture text.Picture can increase their emotion and attitude of the students; 3) Cognitive function is visual media or pictures that can help to reach purpose for understand and remember information or message in the pictures; 4) Compensatory function is visual media that gives contexts for understand to help students a low in read to organize information in the text and remember again.In another word media can help low students to accept the lesson easily.
From the theory above, the teacher as a class guide should conduct the teaching method with the appropriate media as long it can improve the students' writing ability.The one of strategy that including media teacher can use is Gallery walk strategy.The reason of researcher using Gallery walk strategy is the benefit of this the previous study shows that gallery walk strategy can improve speaking skill.The study conducted by Farrah Zakiyah Anwar (2015), A'in Ratna Mulyani (2014), Marini (2012) were conducted a study on investigating the effectiveness of using gallery.In the other words, the researcher believes that gallery walk strategy is a learning method that can improve the students' skill in writing Narrative Text.

II. METHOD
The research design used in this study is Classroom Action Research (CAR), because this study aims to improve writing skill in narrative text of first grader of MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo.Cameron-Jones (1983) state that subject defines action research as research carried out by practitioners with a view to improve their professional practice and understand it better.
Classroom Action research is a cyclic process, which consists of some sequences namely planning the action, implementing the action, reflecting on the observation, and observing the action.It means that if from the first cycle is failed which is indicate the students' value is under criteria, it should be continue to the next cycle.It will be fixed and stopped when the students get the criteria of success from this study.
This study uses Classroom Action Research (CAR).Ur (1996) states that classroom action research is carried out by teachers on phenomena in their own classrooms.It is meant primarily to improve the teacher-researcher's own teaching process and is done based on a cycle of investigation, action, and re-investigation by two or more collaborating teachers.This research has several procedures consists of 1) planning the action, 2) implementing the action, 3) observing the action, and 4).reflecting on the observation.The preliminary study is the beginning of this procedure to identify and analyze the real problem.The researcher using a scoring rubric by Cohen (1994) that consist of After collect the score, the researcher calculates his score and collaborator score and divide it for getting the final score.
The formula is as follow:

Fail Success Conclusion and Report
Revise the plan and continue to the next cycle.
doing the revised steps until criteria of success have been achieved.Meanwhile, if the criteria of the success have been already achieved within one cycle, the researcher stops the action.

A. Preliminary Study
Before conducting the study on English teaching and learning in MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo, the researcher conducts preliminary study to get information about the teaching and learning English at MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo, especially in learning writing.In this preliminary study, the researcher meets the headmaster of MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo to talk about the plan of research.She also asks the condition of the first-grade students to English teacher through informal interview and does direct observation in teaching and learning process.After conducting informal information, the analysis is carried out.
Beside doing informal interview and doing direct observation in teaching learning process, the researcher also does pre-test to measure the students' competence in writing narrative text.And the result show that 53,6% of the students get score ≤75.And from this analysis, the researcher found that the students' writing competence is in average level with the mean score was 73.9.Picture 2. The students were taking a note from the gallery The third meeting was done on March 7 th ,2018.In the third meeting, students were asked to observe the sequel of narrative text on the wall.The students decide the title of narrative story they have chosen the story which is had been never written by them.The students wrote it into their assessment.They had been given a chance to revise it.And the final draft was the data for the post test.

Observing the Action
The observation of students' condition was done during the teaching and learning process.
From the observation checklist, the researcher found some actions and improvement from the students such as: the situation in the classroom was stable.It proved from the percentation of students' checklist score which was 92% students did the learning activities.Maximal Score Score = 23 x 100 % 25 Score = 92% Students do the activities Beside the students' observation checklist, the significant points which is proof the improvement of students can be seen from field note.It shows the positive actions of students from their good attention and question.They also did their assessment well.

Reflecting of the Action
In reflecting the action, the writer gave the students' final score based on the scoring rubric.
It can be seen in Appendix 5.The researcher got the final score from the collaboration between teacher and researcher.The collaborator gave a score for the students in the final test.So, there are two raters in this study.
The result of the cycle showed that 100% of the students or 28 of the students got score above the minimum criterion-kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM).The minimum criterion-kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM) was 75.So, the criterion of the success that 80% of the students must score above the minimum criterion-kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM) was achieved successfully.In scoring the data, the collaboration between teacher and the collaborator is the complete one.The collaborator also gave the score for the students in final test.So, there are two raters in this study.

Final
result of the data analysis is compared to the criteria of success to know whether the criteria of success have been achieved or not.If the indicators of the criteria of success have not been achieved yet, the researcher continues to the next cycle by revising the steps and Preliminary Study Observing the teaching of writing at the first-year students of MA Al-Mahrusiyah Lirboyo to identify and analyze the factual problem Planning Preparing the research instruments, designing lesson plan, preparing the media, and preparing the criteria of success.Reflecting/Data Analysis Analyzing the result of the observation and doing a reflection on the result Observing/Data Collection observing the action through observation sheet, fields notes and the subject final composition.Implementing Carrying out the teaching learning process based on lesson plan.

Table 1 .
The score for pretest at first meeting on 26 th February 2018.

Table 3 .
The students' observation field note

Table 4 .
The score for post test at last meeting on 7 th March 2018The researcher used Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) to test the reliability of the researcher's score and the collaborator's score in post-test.The acceptable level of Cronbach Alpha is 0.6.From SPSS, the reliability value from the researcher's score and the collaborator's score in post-test is 0.963.So, the value of this research score is acceptable.

Table 5 . The Reliability of Students' Score
There was important improvement in writing narrative paraghraph of students in pretest and posttest.In the pretest, there were 13 students with percentage 46.4% students got success, and 15 students with percentage 53.6%did not success yet.In the post test (cycle) there were 28 students got success with percentage 100%.It shows that there was an improvement of the students from pre-test to post test.