IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH ACCELERATED LEARNING APPROACH AT MADRASAH ALIYAH TAMAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM MEDAN

The aims of this study are to improve the students’ writing ability by using accelerated learning approach, to find out the students’ ability before and after implementing the accelerated learning. The objective of the study was to find out how accelerated learning approach can be used to improve the writing ability of students. The study was collaborative classroom action. This study was conducted in two cycles by following the procedures of the action research i.e. planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. The data of the study were gathered through the following instruments - observation checklist, field notes, and writing test. The subjects of this study were 42 second year students of MA Taman Pendidikan Islam of the 2015/2016 academic year. All students were taken as the subjects of the research. The finding of the study indicated that Accelerated Learning approach was successful in improving students’ writing narrative text. The improvement could be seen from the increase of students’ average writing score from 49.6 in the preliminary study, and 60.2 in the first cycle, to 70.2 in the second cycle. Besides, the finding indicated that Accelerated Learning approach was effective in enhancing the students’ motivation and participation. It seemed that most of students (92,60%) were involved actively in writing. Based on the findings, it is suggested that English teachers apply Accelerated Learning approach since it is beneficial not only in improving the writing narrative text but also in motivating students to write and work together to describe the event in the picture. Besides, the technique is also helpful in encouraging students to actively participate in writing narrative text.