The Use of Creative Board Media in Improving Arabic Writing Skills

_______________________ *Correspondence Address: isop.syafei@uinsgd.ac.id Abstract: The learning process of writing Arabic occasionally finds difficulties in examining the validity of writing or answers from the students as soon as possible evenly in the classroom, because of limited time. The teacher is required to be able to manage learning as well as possible, so that the interaction between students and teacher in the process of teaching activities runs optimally and comprehensively to all students in the class. This research aims to determine the efforts of the Arabic language teacher at Islamic senior high school of P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi in the use of creative board media to improve the Arabic writing skills of the students. The method used in this research is experimental method. The subject of research are students of class X KBC (Kelompok Belajar Cepat Fast Learning Group) majoring in social studies (16 students), and students of class X majoring in science (22 students). Data collection technique used in this assignment project is documentation. In analyzing data, the researcher uses deductive analysis techniques. The results showed that; 1) the Arabic teacher has sought to use effective and efficient media in the learning process, 2) students can also get benefit from the Creative Board media to be more enthusiastic in practicing Arabic writing. The crative board media is hence very feasible to be implemented in the process of learning a foreign language.


Introduction
Arabic competencies that must be possessed by students in this millennial era are interactive communication skills, where students are forged to have communication skills in accordance with the themes that exist in everyday life. In the learning process occasionally find difficulties in examining the validity of the writing or answers of students as soon as possible evenly in the classroom, because learning is limited by time.
While teachers are required to be able to manage learning as well as possible. Therefore teachers are required to innovate in learning foreign languages. To achieve that goal, it is necessary to use learning media that can motivate students to improve their foreign language skills. One of the ways is by using Creative Board media.
Creative Board is a simple two-dimensional learning media made of thick cardboard or used cardboard sheets cut to the desired size, and then coated with colored folio paper, also coated with clear white duct tape, so that it can be written on it with non-permanent markers and can be deleted again for subsequent writing. Learning media as its function are all things that can be used to channel messages and stimulate mind, arouse enthusiasm, attention, and willingness of students, so that it can encourage the learning process in students. 1 Creative Board as a learning media facilitates educators and students in conveying information on learning activities in Arabic writing skills that are effective and efficient.
In learning Arabic writing skills, particularly at part of composing (Insya") oriented on students' ability to express their thoughts in the form of ideas, messages, feelings into written language, teachers often have difficulty in examining students' works. 2 This is due to constrained learning time which is very limited, so the learning time has often run out while the verification of each student's writing has not been completely finished. Therefore, only several students' writings can be assessed carefully, and given feedback, so that the students whose writings have not been verified tend to be ignored. This situation leads to imbalancement of interactions between teacher and all students. Ideally, writing skill learning results are checked spontaneously right away and given feedback so that the next writing results are minimized errors. 3 Creative Board learning media is a tool emphasizing students to learn writing quickly and pleasantly, as well as to show the result of students' work to the teacher right away, so as to write the next sentence avoiding the previous mistakes that have been corrected. 4 The ways to use the Creative Board media are as follows: (1)  directly and gives longer portions for writing that requires more correction. 5 This is very beneficial for teaching and learning activities because the teacher does not have to check piles of students' books. Verification of writing skills can also be carried out spontaneously. By using this Creative Board learning media, the achievement of students' learning goals can be more effective and efficient, maximally achieved by only using minimal learning components. 6 The values contained in the use of Creative Board learning media are in line with the basic principles of curriculum development 2013, which confirms that the learning process with a scientific approach and the assessment of learning outcomes based on processes and products through activities: observing, asking, exploring, associating, and communicating. 7 This is reinforced by the characteristics of the 2013 curriculum as outlined in the basic framework and structure of the curriculum designed to develop a balance between developing spiritual and social attitudes, curiosity, creativity, cooperation, with intellectual and psychomotor abilities. 8 In the process of learning Arabic writing skills carried out at Islamic Senior High School P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi, the use of Creative Board media has been going on for a period of time. Based on the problem analysis of previous writing skills learning, the teacher faces obstacles to build innovations in the use of effective and efficient media avoiding boredom in learning and equitable interaction between teacher and students. 9 Thus, the use of Creative Board as a medium for learning foreign languages, particularly in this case is Arabic writing skills, will further familiarize them with Arabic and have a sense of pleasure in learning it. Research efforts in Arabic writing skills and their development have been carried out by previous researchers as described above, this article seeks to explore the use of Creative Board media in order to improve Arabic writing skills. This article outlines the efforts that have been made by Arabic language teacher at Islamic Senior High School P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi in the use of Creative Board media in improving Arabic writing skills of students from this school. To discuss this case systematically, this article is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the Creative Board learning media. The second part outlines the discourse on Arabic writing skills (maharatul kitabah). The third part is the use of Creative Board learning media to improve Arabic writing skills at Islamic Senior High School P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi. researcher uses deductive analysis techniques, that indicators of competency achievement become a reference in assessing student's work. 19

Learning Media of Creative Board
The Association of Education Communication Technology (AECT) defines media as all forms and channels that can be used for the message distribution process.
Media is a component of the process of teaching and learning activities that help students to understand the received information. 20 Learning media are also positioned as an environmental stimulus that influences students to take action in learning. 21 Anything can become media if a message of information reaches the recipient. If something does not convey information in the learning process, but only as a device, then it cannot be said as a learning media. 22 In Arabic, learning media is called al-wasa'il al-ta'limiyah, which means that everything used to facilitate the delivery of Arabic learning material. 23 Arabic learning media can be physical or non-physical which is used by the teacher as an intermediary to understand the information conveyed by the teacher to students in order to achieve the learning objectives effectively and efficiently. 24 The classification of learning media in accordance with the ease of procurement are: (1) language as instructions; (2)  Board media for writing skills on state and citizen material; 32 (6) The use of Creative Board media for khobar use based on its mubtada"; 33 (7) The use of Creative Board media to train the development of writing ideas; 34 (8) The use of Creative Board media to train the development of mufrodat through 'catch up' games; 35 (9) The use of Creative Board media for sentence development; 36 (10) The use of Creative Board media for the development of 'lined sentences', and others. 37

Discourse on Arabic Writing Skills (Maharatul Kitabah)
Writing skills are one of the four language skills that need to be mastered in the language learning process. 38 Writing skills are communicative skills in written language that have two aspects: first, proficiency in forming letters and mastering spelling; and the second is giving birth to thoughts and feelings with writing. While the core of writing skills lies in the second aspect. 39 Writing is a communication activity that is carried out in the absence of tone of voice, expression, gestures and also the absence of a situation as happened in oral communication. 40 But writing is able to express a variety of ideas freely by paying attention to signs of writing, such as writing techniques, language rules, logic, coherence, content, spelling, and diction. Writing skills are complex language skills, because they involve not only grammatical or rhetorical compilation, but also mastery of conceptual elements. 41 In the context of learning Arabic at Islamic Senior High School P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi, writing skills (maharatul kitabah) is a process that systematically strived for to improve the ability of students to communicate in writing in Arabic. 42 Whereas the teaching technique of writing skills (maharatul kitabah) begins by introducing written words and sentences, imitating the writing model, i.e. students can mimic the same writing structure model, but different contents, rearranging words into a sentence that can be understood, complete skipped sentences, write descriptive sentences on an image, develop topics, arrange dialogues, and arrange paragraphs. 43 The teaching techniques of writing essays, starting with guided writing, continued with free writing. At this stage students are trained to express their opinions by choosing words and sentence patterns freely, with guidance and direction from the teacher. While the types of essays are: simple exposition, narration, and description. 44 In reviewing the results of writing and its assessment need a relatively long time, because it requires carefulness and accuracy, so that students get feedback immediately from their writings and make improvements to the notes provided by the teacher. 45 It is important to note that the learning of writing skills is not merely ended in producing numbers in the assessment, but suggestions and directions about writing. One thing that should not be forgotten is to give an appreciation of the written results that have been achieved by students, both verbally and in writing on their working papers. 46 The Use of Creative Board to Improve Arabic Writing Skills in Islamic Senior High

School P.B. Soedirman 1 Bekasi
The learning process using Creative Board is carried out in class X in the final semester 1. This is a combined manifestation of KD 3. 4 and KD 4. 4. The description of KD 3 .4 is to show public buildings (al-mabani al-"ammah) that are close to the daily lives of students, taking into account social functions, text structures, and linguistic elements in transactional oral and written interaction texts, according to the context of their use. While KD 4. 4's description is to use simple texts related to public buildings (al-mabani al-"ammah) that are close to the daily lives of students, by paying attention to social functions, text structures, and correct linguistic elements and in context. mufrodat and sentences must be increased; 2) The habituation of discipline in time management.

Indicators
The procedure for using Creative Board media to write words is as follows: (a) The teacher provides new vocabulary that is considered difficult with regard to the theme

Conclusion
By implementing the use of Creative Board media in learning writing skills, The Arabic teacher has sought to use effective and efficient media in the learning process. On the other hand, students can also get benefit from the Creative Board media to be more enthusiastic in practicing Arabic writing, which then has implications for improving writing skills and a pleasure in learning Arabic, although most students assume that learning Arabic is a very difficult subject.Thus, the use of Creative Board learning media is feasible in the process of learning Arabic writing skills. Therefore, it is expected that future researchers will conduct further research using Creative Board learning media in learning other Arabic language skills.