The Effectiveness of Quartet Card Game in Teaching Writing Descriptive Texts to Senior High School Students in Batu Ampar

Yuliani (IKIP PGRI Pontianak)
Aunurrahman Aunurrahman (IKIP PGRI Pontianak)
Maliqul Hafis (IKIP PGRI Pontianak)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Literacy and Education
Vol 1 No 1 (2020): Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Literacy and Education

This pre-experimental study aimed to find out the effectiveness of quartet card game in teaching writing descriptive text to the first-year students of a public senior high school in Batu Ampar in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. 36 first-year students were selected by using cluster random sampling. The researcher used writing test for data collection. The writing test sessions were conducted before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the treatment end. The researcher then conducted data analysis of the results of the tests by using inferential statistics, that is, by using t-test formula. The data analysis reveals that quartet card game is effective to teaching writing descriptive test. There is a significant difference of the result of the pre-test (mean score 59.17) and the result of the post-test (77.06) where the result of the t-test observed (16.961) is higher than the t-table (2.03).