TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING USING THINK TALK AND WRITING ( TTW ) AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY MADURA ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY

This study is to describe the process of teaching descriptive writing skill by using Think Talk and Write (TTW) at second semester of English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Madura Islamic University. The study used descriptive qualitative research. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation such as observation list for students, students’ writing result, and describing the situation of class during the observation. In analyzing the data, the researcher used simple formula such as numerical data to support the research. The result of this research, in can be concluded that using Think Talk and Writing (TTW) to teach writing especially descriptive text is very effective and help students to develop their skill in writing, it showed by the students’ response (78.26% of Students enjoyed the class), and it was also supported by the score of students’ writing skill in writing descriptive text (82.7% of students got the target score). Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan proses pembelajaran keterampilan menulis deskriptif dengan menggunakan Think Talk and Write (TTW) pada semester dua Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Keguruan dan ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Islam Madura. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Dalam mengumpulkan data, peneliti menggunakan observasi seperti daftar observasi untuk siswa, hasil tulisan siswa, dan menggambarkan situasi kelas selama pengamatan. Dalam menganalisis data, peneliti menggunakan rumus sederhana seperti data numerik untuk mendukung penelitian. Hasil dari penelitian ini, dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan Think Talk and Writing (TTW) untuk mengajar menulis terutama teks deskriptif sangat efektif dan membantu siswa untuk mengembangkan keterampilan mereka dalam menulis, hal ini ditunjukkan oleh respon siswa (78,26% siswa menikmati kelas), dan itu juga didukung oleh skor keterampilan menulis siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif (82,7% siswa mendapat skor target). © 2018 Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Islam Madura


INTRODUCTION
In modern era, English is an international language which is used by almost of people in the world as a tool of communication with other people.English is a main orientation in communicating with other people in the world if the people do not know about the language.The people are able to communicate with other people by using English, if the people do not know the first language of the native.
It is one of reason why English is very important for everyone.Knowing a little about English, it helps in communicating with other people.
Talking about English language, one of skills in English language is writing, it is one of skills in English Language, stated that writing is a kind of progressive activity (Oshima & Hogue, 1997).This means that when   1996).This strategy lets students to think, talk and write their ideas.There are some steps in applying this strategy (Huda, 2013).The first step is think.In this section, lecturer gives some contextual questions then the students think the possible answer by making some notes about their ideas.
The second step is talk.This activity   In the third step, the researcher observed the result of students writing.
From the data, it can be concluded that using Think-Talk and Write (TTW) in teaching writing is very satisfied; it showed from the score of students and also the percentage of students who got target score.In this step, the lecturer made criteria of scoring students' writing skill.
you first write something down, you have already been thinking about what you are going to say and how you are going to say it.Then after you have finished writing, you read over what you have written and make changesand corrections.Therefore, writing is never a one-step-action; it is a process that has several steps.In addition(Heaton, 1975) stated that there are four skills necessary for writing.
gives students some opportunities to discuss their ideas with their friends by reflecting, arranging, and sharing the idea.The last step is Write.In the last activity, the students write the ideas that they got from the first and second step, the writing consists of the concept, strategy and solution that they got.METHODThis research used descriptive qualitative research, it is best suited to address a research problem in which you do not know the variables and need to explore,(Creswell, 2012).In qualitative research, we identify our participants and sites on purposeful sampling, based on places and people that can best help us understand our central phenomenon.The subject of this research is students and the lecturer of the writing class at and Writing (TTW).In this section, the lecturer gave some questions related to the topic.It was about "My Favorite Person" such as who is your favorite actor/ football player/ singer?.After giving some questions, the lecturer gave opportunities to the students to think first what the answers are, this instruction is called by "think" activity.The next activity is "talk" activity.In this activity, the lecturer ask students to discuss their questions with their friend, while they were discussing with their friends, the lecturer went around to the students.The last activity is "writing activity", in this step, students constructed their knowledge or write descriptive text based on the first and second activity.In the second activity, the researcher gave questionnaire to the students to know the responses of students about the process of teaching and learning through Think-Talk and Write (TTW).
the class because they were active in the class, share or discuss the ideas with their friends before writing their own idea.These steps (Think-Talk and Writing) made students are easy to write their opinion especially writing descriptive text about their favorite person.