The effect of inquiry method on student’s ability in writing descriptive text at XI grade of SMAN 7 Padangsidimpuan

Pane, Agustina Chairani (2017) The effect of inquiry method on student’s ability in writing descriptive text at XI grade of SMAN 7 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research examined the The Effect of Inquiry Method on Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text at XI Grade of SMAN 7 Padangsidimpuan. The students’ problems in writing were: 1) Students were difficult to organize the text ; 2) Student did not know how to write well based on structureand grammar; 3)students were lack vocabulary.Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s strategy also became a problem in learning writing descriptive text. The teacher still used the conventional method in teaching writing descriptive text. The purpose of this research was to examine whether there was significant effect of using inquiry method on students’ writing ability at XI grade in SMAN 7Padangsidimpuan.. The method used in this research was experimental research. Two classes were chosen as the sample. They were XI IPA 1 as the experimental class that consisted of 30 students and XI IPA 2 as the control class that consisted of 30 students. It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data are derived from pre-test and post-test. To measure the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 53 and post-test was 85.9. Meanwhile, the mean score of control class in pre-test was 49.7 and in post-test was 61.18. So, the reseacher found that the mean score of experimental class after using Inquiry Method was higher than control class. Besides it, the score of tcount was higher than ttable(7.33>1.67155). It meant that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of inquiry method on students’ ability in

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