DEVELOPING THE WRITING PARAGRAPH THROUGH QUICKWRITING FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SMP SWASTA PAHLAWAN NASIONAL

This study deals with developing the writing paragraph through quickwriting for
junior high school at smp swasta pahlawan nasional. The objectives of this study
were to find out to improve the students’ ability in writing paragraph of grade VIII
students by using quickwriting strategy. Data data of the research was taken from
the secondary grade of Junior High School Students at SMP Swasta Pahlawan
Nasional Medan, which is taken from one class, contain 33 student. The data in
this research collected by using interview and questionnaire. The interview and
questionnaire will be given to collect the students’ need, problem and interesting
in learning English, particularly in writing and using quick writing in teaching and
learning. In the teaching-learning process the teacher should prepare before
conducting the lesson. The first is classroom procedures in teaching-learning
process. Classroom procedures used by English teacher are opening, quickwriting,
main activities (exploration-elaboration-confirmation), closing.There are some
problems faced in the teaching-learning process. The problems faced are problem
in developing idea, organizing idea, difficulties in vocabulary, tenses, and
grammar, different capability of the students, and limited time. The consequently,
the teacher should give solutions to cope the problems faced in teaching-learning
process. So, the teacher should be creative to minimize the problem faced in
teaching-learning process in order to make the students enjoy with the materials
and develop student’s ability.