Journal Resume 13

OBSERVING CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING ON STUDENTS’

ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

Dr. TienRafida

Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teaching, State Islamic University of North Sumatra (UINSU),

Medan, Indonesia

===============================================================

This research is held to observe the effect of contextual teaching and learning on students’ achievement in writing recount text. This research conducted at eight grade students of

Swasta Bina Bangsa junior high school, Batubara Regency. The students are given an instructive test form to write a recount text on the pretest and post-test. The contextual teaching and learning are given after the pretest done. From the result of the test, Students’ achievement in writing recount text taught by using contextual teaching and learning are  higher than that taught by using lecture method which mean contextual teaching and learning is better used to improve the students writing achievement in recount text than lecture method. It also improve the ability and the activeness of the students in writing recount text.