THE INTEREST AND POETRY WRITING SKILLS IMPROVEMENT BY DISCOVERY BASED LEARNING METHOD

Abstract

This study aimed: 1) to increase the interest in writing poems; and 2) to improve the ability to write poetry in grade VIII. This research was a classroom action research. This research has done around August until November 2016 at class VIII SMP at Sukoharjo. The data sources of this research were documents and field notes of the observation. The techniques of data collection were observation, in-depth interview, tests, and documents analysis. Data validation in this research were triangulation of the resources and methods as well as review of the informants. The results can be concluded that: 1) there is improvement of the students’ interest in writing poetries. The interest improvement can be explained in 1 cycle, 24 students or 47% of the students who joined the teaching and learning process increased to 75% of the students in 2 nd cycle; 2) In 1 st cycle, writing skills increased 81% (26 students) became 96% (31 students) in 2 nd cycle. st