The Implementation of Teaching Writing Skill through ‘Scratch’ for Eight Grade Students at SMP Al- Hikmah Medan

The aims of the research are to describe the students’ problems in writing and to
describe the effective of the implementation of teaching writing skills through the
Scratch program. This study was designed descriptive qualitative. The data in this
study were obtained through questionnaire and interview. The subjects of the study
were an English teacher and twenty eighth-grade students of SMP Swasta Al-
Hikmah Medan. The students' problems are lack of vocabulary in writing, lack of
confidence in creating ideas, lack of interest in learning English, and students'
perceptions of ineffective strategies. According to the teacher scratch program is
effective to use in teaching writing skills. Based on the results, the use of the Scratch
program in teaching writing skills deserves to be used as an interesting and creative
learning media.