Using Advertisement in Teaching Writing at Tenth Grade Students of SMAN1 Bendahara Kabupaten Aceh Tamiang

Persuasive text is a text which the purpose is to persuade the reader to believe and do the writer suggestion. The writer chose this title because the students’ ability in tenth grade students of SMAN1 Bendahara was very low. The writer offered the use of advertisement as the media. This research used classroom action research and mix method. This research consisted of two research questions and had two purposes of course. The instrument of this research were test and questionnaire. The writer made three cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation and reflection. Before doing the cycle, the writer did a pre-test to know the students’ ability before giving a treatment. First cycle done on Tuesday February 17, 2015 at 10.50 a.m to 12.20 p.m. However the students’ improvement only 37%. Therefore, the writer did the second cycle on Tuesday February 24, 2015. In this cycle, there were a fantastic number of students’ imrpovement score, 70%. However, this score were not enough yet, the writer did the third cycle on Tuesday March 03, 2015. In this cycle, all students were anthusiast and focus to the teacher’s explanation, they were brave to ask the teacher about something that they do not understand yet. Their improvement score was 95%, this improvement was more than enough. Finally the writer gave a questionnaire about their feeling and experiences as post test, almost all of the students agree with the teacher’s suggestion. Therefore, the writer completed this research on Tuesday March 10, 2015.