Register : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning of FBS UNIMED
Vol 4, No 2 (2015): Apr-June

THE EFFECT OF GUIDED WRITING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Fandy Raymond Napitupulu and Tjut Ernidawati (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2015

Abstract

This study is an attempt to discover the effect of applying Guided Writing Strategy on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The Population of this research was the eighth (VIII) grade students of SMP Tri Sakti Lubuk Pakam which has three parallel classes. The samples of this research were taken by through lottery. They were class VIII 3 became the experimental group and class VIII 2 became the control group. The experimental group was taught by using Guided Writing Strategy while the control group without treatment. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result shows that the value of t­-observed is higher than the value of t-table. (5.56 > 1.67 (α = 0.05)) with the degree of freedom (df) = 70. It means that there is a significant effect of applying Guided Writing Strategy on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eltu

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

REGISTER Journal is a quarterly publication presenting articles on English Language Teaching. The contents include analysis, studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development and ...