Incorporating field trip method-assisted on students’ writing a sentence: identify subject-verb agreement.

Abstract

This research aims at finding on how field trip method assists students learn to write sentence and to find students’ responses toward field trip method in learning to write a sentence. This writing concerns on identifying subject verb-agreement in a sentence. This present research uses a narrative inquiry design. This research was carried out in the first semester at second graders of SMPN 7 Karawang Barat. This study involved three participants out three out of thirty-students. Interview, student’s reflective journal and documentation were used to collect the data. The researcher conducted open-ended interview to collect the data. The data were analysed by thematic analysis. The findings represented that excursion activity in field trip method builds students’ collaborative learning; experience of searching object directly helps students to write a sentence; and finding the real object assist students to classify subject-verb agreement in a sentence. Collaborative writing in field trip method assists students to create better background knowledge in writing sentences, build better attitude in learning and motivates students to learn write sentences with reagrded to identify subject-verb agreement. In addition, the students who confuse to start writing English sentences were encouraged learn to write a sentence.