IMPROVING WRITING SKILL THROUGH SIMULTANEOUS ROUNDTABLE WITH PICTURE OF THE SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1 KUTA UTARA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025

One of the success indicators of learning English in Junior High School is to write the ideas, information, or feeling by means of functional purposes. Therefore, the application of an appropriate teaching method is required. The study attempted to investigate whether the writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kuta Utara in the academic year 2024/2025 can be improved through simultaneous roundtable with picture. The subjects consisted of 37 students; 17 males and 20 females. The design was classroom action research. It was done in two cycles and each cycle consisted of two sessions. The findings of the study revealed that the students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph has increased after the simultaneous roundtable with picture is applied in teaching- learning process. Data showed that there were significant improvements of the subjects’ mean scores from the pre-test and post-tests. The mean score of the pre- test was 60.38, post-test I was 74.27, and post-test II was 82.95. As supporting data, the questionnaire was also administered in the end of the last cycle and the result showed more than 90% of the subjects positively agreed on the implementation of simultaneous roundtable with picture in improving writing skill. It could be concluded that writing skill of the seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kuta Utara in the academic year 2024/2025 could be improved through simultaneous roundtable with picture.