The effect of guided questions on students’ writing descriptive text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Lubis, Armi Avriyanti (2015) The effect of guided questions on students’ writing descriptive text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the effect of guided question on students’ writing descriptive text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were the students still got low grade with average 70; meanwhile the standard of English competency in this school was 75, students did not interest to study English, and students were lack of vocabulary and motivation in writing. The aims of this research were to describe and to examine the effect of guided question on students’ writing descriptive text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research used experimental method with quantitative approach. The population of this research was the eight grade of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were 12 classes. Then, the sample of the research were 2 classes, experiment class (VIII-2) and control class (VIII-3). To collect the data, researcher used the instrument test for the students about writing skills, the instrument was essay test. To analysis the data, the researcher used formulation of t-test. Based on the data, it was found that the students’ ability in writing was better after teaching by guided writing than before teaching by guided writing. It can be seen from mean score of experimental class before treatment was 68,84 after treatment was 73,72. The score of experiment class better than control class after gave the treatment. It can be seen from mean score of experiment class was 73,72 and control class was 71,16. Based on calculation of T-test, the researcher found that tcount = 1,84 and ttable = 1,676. It means tcount > ttable (1,84 > 1,676). So, Ha is accepted.It means that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of guided question on students’ writing descriptive text at grade VIII of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Finally, the researcher suggested using guided questions was effective and efficient to improve students’ writing skills.

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