Improving Writing Skill of the Seventh-grade Students of SMPN 4 Denpasar in the Academic Year 2023/2024 through Tell-Show Strategy Combined with Picture

Writing is one of the important language skills among reading, listening, and writing. By mastering writing skill, someone can communicate through written form well to convey the information they have to others. However, there are several problems experienced by students in learning English, including students’ comprehension, grammatical error, and vocabularies. The present research objective was mainly intended to find out whether writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMPN 4 Denapasar in academic year 2023/2024 could be improved through Tell-Show strategy combined with picture. The present study used the classroom action research design that was conducted in two cycles. The required data were collected by administering research instruments: paragraph construction tests and a structured questionnaire. After the cyclical research processes, it was found that Tell-Show Strategy combined with picture was appropriate teaching technique to improve the subjects’ writing skill, especially in constructing a descriptive paragraph. It could be seen from the results of the pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2, which showed significant improvement in the subjects’ writing skill. Furthermore, it was supported by the structured questionnaire, which showed positive responses to the implementation of Tell-Show Strategy combined with picture. It can be concluded that writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMPN 4 Denpasar in academic year 2023/2024 could be improved by implementing Tell-Show Strategy combined with picture.