THE USE OF FABLE IN TEACHING WRITING SKILL IN ENGLISH INTENSIVE PROGRAM AT SP ( SATUAN PENDIDIKAN) MUADALAH ULYA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022

ABSTRACT
Ummah, SF. 2022. The Use of Fable in Teaching Writing Skill in English Intensive Program at SP (Satuan Pendidikan) Muadalah Ulya in Academic Year 2021-2022. Advisor: Dr. Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani, MA.
Key Words: Fable, Writing Skill
This research is done at English intensive program exactly in SP (Satuan Pendidikan) Muadalah Ulya in year 2022 which consist of 25 students. This research is conducted by seeing complex problems and difficulties of students such as the majority students have difficulty to find idea or don’t have any imagination that can be expressed into their writing. Writing is one of four English skills which belong to productive skill. It needs more practice and habituation more than receptive skills like reading and listening in order to achieve maximum ability results from students. Fable is one of short stories which contained fiction and had animal or plant as characters. Fable is applied in teaching writing by the teacher because fable was funny text which builds not only imagination or idea of students but also attitude of students through the moral value of every single story within fable.
The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. Descriptive qualitative is a qualitative method in which researchers describe people’s lives, gather and tell stories about them, and compose about their experiences. In education, these anecdotes are frequently about classroom experiences or school activities. In which to gain the data, the researcher does observation, interview and documentation. Hence, this research is aimed to describe how the teacher teaches writing skill in English intensive program at SP (Satuan Pendidikan) Muadalah Ulya through Fable and to know why fable is used in teaching writing skill in English intensive program at SP (Satuan Pendidikan) Muadalah Ulya.
And the result of this research is fable is story that carries a moral value through the character of animal or plants as the actor in every story. By simple concept and funny ideas of fable, it helps students to stimulate their ideas and increase their creativity in writing. By using fable in teaching writing skill in English Intensive Program at SP (Satuan Pendidikan) Muadalah Ulya the teacher not only can stimulate the idea and imagination of students, but also teaching students a moral value, good behavior through the moral value which appears in every story of fable.