Improving Students' Writing Performance on Recount Text through Direct Feedback Strategy

Abstract

This study aims to improve students' writing skills in class VIII at MTs Bahrul Ulum in the 2022/2023 academic year through direct feedback. This research is a classroom action research which consists of two cycles. The subjects of this research were class VIII students of MTs Bahrul Ulum. The instruments used in this study were teacher observation sheets, student observation sheets, tests and documentation. The results of the two cycles show that the application of direct feedback has succeeded in improving students' writing skills. This finding is also supported by student scores in the previous semester which obtained an average of 65.76 or 5.8% to the post-test cycle I of 71.41 or 88.23% and the average score in the post-test cycle 2 is 75.64 or 94.11%. From the results above, it can be concluded that direct feedback can improve students' writing skills.