Inquiry-Based Instruction to Intensify Students’ Learning Activities in Writing Procedure Text in VII-5 Grade SMP Negeri 5 Padang Sidempuan

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This study aimed to improve students’ ability in writing procedure text  in grade VII-5 SMP Negeri 5 Padang Sidempuan by implementing an Inquiry-based Intrusction. This study did in VII of junior high school level with 32 participants that consists of 16 girls and 16 boys, and the researcher herself involved as a participant observer. This is a qualitative study because investigated the value of teaching learning, and concentrated mainly on finding out how the Inquiry learning improve students’ achivement in writing. The data collected by interview, classroom observation and students texts. The finding are as follows. The Inquiry-Based Instruction Approach implementation is significant to improve students’ ability in English writing a notice text in grade VII-5 SMP Negeri 5 PadangSidempuan. The teaching phase of the Inquire-Based Instruction is parallel with the stages in teaching writing. The researcher noticed that the elaboration supported students’ knowledge in vocabulary, grammar, and text features. An Inquiry learning significants improvements in features of the students’ final written products. But, teacher who intends to implement the Inquiry-Based Instruction Approach in a classroom need to have a sufficient knowledge regarding the approach, in order to be able to implement the approach better. The Inquiry-Based Instructions approach is better implemented in small classrooms to avoid teacher’s difficulties in classroom management. Thus, through the limitations contained in this study, recommending further studies related to studies on issues that have not been discussed in this research.