IMPROVING THE STUDENTS ’ ENGLISH WRITING SKILL BY USING TEXT CAPTION AT THE TENTH GRADE SMK NEGERI 1 BONE

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The aim of this research is to find out whether students at SMK 1 Bone are able to improve their English writing skills using captions. This research method is PTK (Classroom Action Research) which uses pre-test and post- test instruments and this method tends to look at the research results to see whether there is an increase in students' writing skills after implementing the caption learning method. The instrument of this research is a writing test which is given as a pre-test and post-test. This is proven by the average student score from the pre-test of 52.9 and an increase of 88.2 from the post- test results. In the end, this research shows that there have been improvements made by the class. The observation results show that the application of the caption text learning method can also improve students' writing skills in the TJKT 2 class at SMK 1 Bone.