The effect of free writing technique on the students’ writing skill at eight grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Olfaini, Nur (2014) The effect of free writing technique on the students’ writing skill at eight grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problems of this research were; 1)Students’ writing result was low; 2) Many students had lack writing motivation, and 3) Poor vocabulary. The consequence of these problemswasstudents’ achievement in writing was under average. So, this research had objective to examine whether there was significant effect of free writing on students’ writing skill SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. In order to achieve the purpose of this research, the researcher carried out quantitative approach by applying experimental research. The population of this research was VIII 1 up to VIII 12. They were consisting of 309 students. The researcher used VIII 1 and VIII 6as the sample that consist of 50 students. In collecting the data, the instrument was essay test. To analyze the data, it was used Ttest formula. Based on the data, it was found that 1) the students’ ability in writing was better after teaching by free writing than before teaching by free writing. It could be seen from mean score of experimental class before treatment was 61,7after treatment was 73,98. 2) The score of experiment class better than control class after giving the treatment. It could be seen from mean score of experiment class was 73,98 and control class was 70,74. 3) Based on calculation of T-test, the researcher found that tcount= 1,74 and ttable = 1,676. It means tcount>ttable(1,74>1,676). So, Ha was accepted.

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