• Gabriel Hibu Piga

  Author

Classroom action research is a way for teachers to discover what works best in their own
classroom situation, thus allowing informed decision about teaching. Action research involves
some stages, those are planning a change, acting, observing the process of change, and reflecting
of the process. The aims of this research is to improve students writing narrative text using
estafet writing teaching model. This research was conducted in three cycles and two meetings in
each cycle. The data were taken from observation, and test. The data analysis was done using
mix method namely quantitative and qualitative method. Quantitative method will used to
analyze data from test in order to know the students’ improvement after the action or success in
result, while qualitative method used to analyze the data from observation in order to know
success in process. The research result shows that the students writing was improved in every
cycle. It can be seen in their mean score of test result of every cycle such as the mean score in the
cycle 1 was 12.5, cycle 2 was 75, and cycle 3 was 80. The result of observation also shows that
the students more active, enjoy and have positive response and good cooperation team. Estafet
writing teaching model can make the teaching and learning process funny and not boring, make
students to have free drawing their ideas in a text, can improve students’ motivation in
developing their imagination to write a text, and growing up students’ braveness in starting their
imagination to write a text.

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