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Abstract

THE EFFORTS TO INCREASE POETRY WRITING ABILITY
THROUGH PRACTICE METHOD, Action Research in 16 Panjak Common Primary School,
Sahan Village, Seluas Sub-district, Bengkayang District, West Borneo Province. The purpose in
this research is to find the increase of poetry writing ability through practice method. The
research was conducted in 16 Panjak Common Primary School, Sahan Village, Seluas Subdistrict, Bengkayang District, West Borneo Province. The implementation of this research started
from February until April 2015 with 37students in the third grade of elementary schools as the
subject sampling and one as an observer. The method used in this research is action research
referred to action research from Kemmis and Taggart, where’s the one cycle of activity consists of
4 components, which are planning, action, monitoring, and reflection. This research consists of 2
cycles with 6 actions. Data analysis in this paper use qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative
data was obtain by monitoring along intervention act recorded in field research notes and
monitoring notes, while quantitative data was obtain by comparing first assessment average score
(before action was given) and last assessment score (after action was given). This research finds
that there’s increasing in ability to write the poetry through practice method. With evidence that
there’s increasing score, where in first assessment the average score is 5.87, while in the second
cycle, the average score is 9.05 out of 12. This showed an increasing average score by 26%.