Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching)
Vol 5, No 1 (2020): MELT June 2020

THE EFFECT OF USING GENIUS LEARNING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS

Dwi Sulistiani (Department of English Education, Universitas Potensi Utama)
Ashari P. Swondo (Department of English Education, Universitas Potensi Utama)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Jun 2021

Abstract

The objectives of this research find out whether there is a significant effect of using genius learning strategy on student’s ability in writing descriptive texts. This research belongs to descriptive quantitative design to the eighth grade students of SMP Swasta Pelita Medan. The data was obtained using pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was given to both groups before treatment and post-test was given after treatment. The writer uses Genius Learning strategy as method to support students produce a descriptive text. The result of the study are; the value of the tobs was 9.741 the degree of freedom (df) is 28 at the level significance 0.05 is 1.701. It means the value of tobs is higher than ttable, the Alternative Hypotheses (Ha) is accepted and the Null hypotheses (Ho) is rejected. The researcher concluded that The Genius learning strategy significantly affects the ability of writing descriptive text to the eighth grade at SMP Swasta Pelita Medan.The writer suggests for the students of English Education Department should use the genius learning strategy as it has already been proven effective to improve student’s ability on writing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MELT

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) is a scientific journal which published by English Education Study Program, University of Potensi Utama Medan. MELT Journal published twice a year in June and December. This journal is the forum for academics and researchers to share the ...