Pembelajaran dengan Teknik Pelatihan Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menulis Surat Pribadi pada Siswa Kelas VII C SMP Negeri 9 Kota Jambi Tahun Pelajaran 2014/2015

The low interest of students in writing letters must be responded to by the teachers, efforts to increase the passion of writing students, teachers try to improve the techniques and abilities of students through letter writing. The objectives of this study include the first to describe the level of students' ability to write personal letters through student training techniques, second Improve the learning process of writing personal letters to students, and third Improve the ability to write personal letters through training techniques so students achieve grades above KKM. In this study, the research design used was classroom action research (CAR) by taking action through cycle I and cycle II. The scope of this research is classroom learning carried out by teachers and students to make improvements that have an impact on improving student learning outcomes. The results of this study show that in the first cycle the value of the ability to write a personal letter in the first cycle was 66.00 with sufficient categories. While the ability to write a personal letter in the second cycle obtained an average value of 77.83 with a good category experiencing an increase of 11.33 or 17.20%.