Increasing The Ability Writing Short Stories through Metacognitive Strategies

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find the increasing of the process and the result student’s
short story writing through metacognitive strategy in language and Indonesia Literature Study
Programme FKIP-PGRI University of Palembang. This research uses action research method
which is done through planning, action, observation, and reflection. This research was
conducted through three cycles, from the result of learning process is found that students have
been able to make a planning, monitoring, evaluation and revising according to metacognitive
strategy cycle, during their time in writing short story task. This research find out that there
had been an increased from the short story writing result in every of its cycle. On the first cycle,
there are 8 (eight) students who accomplished the task, with average score is in 64,16. On the
second cycle, it showed a significant increased, there were 29 (twenty nine) students who
accomplished and 9 (nine) students have not accomplished the task, with average score is ini
72, 18. And the third cycle, there were 38 (thirty eight) students who accomplished the task in
the short story writing learning process with average score was in 77,05