U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 4, No 5 (2015): U-JET

THE EFFECT OF SENTENCE COMBINING PRACTICE IN STUDENTS WRITING ACHIEVEMENT

Dewi Firdanti (University of Lampung)
Basturi Hasan (University of Lampung)
Sudirman Sudirman (University of Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2015

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penerapan Sentence Combining Practice pada prestasi siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif. Sampel dari penelitian ini adalah 35 siswa kelas X.4 yang dipilih dengan menggunakan teknik lotere. Instrumen untuk mengumpulkan data adalah tes tertulis. Rumus Pearson Product Moment diaplikasikan untuk memperoleh keandalan tes. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa keandalan pre-test adalah 0,81 dikategorikan sebagai keandalan sangat tinggi, sementara keandalan post-tes adalah 0.70 dikategorikan kehandalan tinggi. Setelah menganalisis data, ditemukan bahwa nilai t observed adalah -9,575 dengan derajat kebebasan (df) = 34 pada tingkat signifikansi (a = 0,05). Ini berarti bahwa t observed lebih tinggi dari t (9,575 2,0301). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Sentence Combining Practice memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap prestasi siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif.This study aimed to discover the effect of applying Sentence Combining Practice on students achievement in writing descriptive text. The samples of the research were 35 students of class X.4 which were chosen by using lottery technique. The instrument for collecting the data was a writing test. Pearson Product Moment formula was applied to obtain the reliability of the test. Based on the calculation, it showed that the reliability of the pre-test was 0.81 categorized as very high reliability, meanwhile reliability of the post test was 0.70 categorized as high reliability. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of t was -9.575 with the degree of freedom (df)=34 at the level of significance (a = 0.05). It meant that t observed was higher than t (9.575 2.0301). The result of this study showed that Sentence Combining Practice had a significant effect on students achievement in writing descriptive text.Keyword: writing, descriptive text, sentence combining practice

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...