The effect of roundtable technique on writing descriptive text mastery at grade XI Students of SMK N 1 Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Putri Diansyah (2019) The effect of roundtable technique on writing descriptive text mastery at grade XI Students of SMK N 1 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research described about students’ problems in writing descriptive text. It was solved by choosing an appropriate technique that is Roundtable technique. The problems of students’ in writing descriptive text were: (1) difficult in understanding the generic structure and language features (2) difficult in understanding the structure and grammar (3) teacher used inappropriate technique (4) difficult to connect one idea to another idea. The purpose of this research is to know whether there is the effect of Roundtable technique on students’ writing descriptive text mastery at grade XI SMK N 1 Padangsidimpuan. The method that is used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI Akuntansi 2 as experimental class that consisted of 30 students and XI Akuntansi 3 as control class that consisted of 30 students. It was conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To analyze the data the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the mean score of experimental class after using Roundtable technique was higher than control class. Mean score of control class in Pre-test was 58.5 and the mean score of control class in Post-test was 65.42, the proof was 6.92. Mean score of experimental class before using Roundtable technique was 53.8 and mean score after using Roundtable technique was 69, the proof was 15.2. The effect of Roundtable technique on students’ writing descriptive text mastery at grade XI SMK N 1 Padangsidimpuan was 4.313 with tcount was higher than ttable (4.313 > 1.671) it meant that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. There was the effect of Roundtable technique on students’ writing descriptive text mastery at grade XI students of SMK N 1 Padangsidimpuan.

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