The effect of using group working technique to students’ descriptive writing ability at grade VIII SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi

Rangkuti, Annasari (2015) The effect of using group working technique to students’ descriptive writing ability at grade VIII SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research purpose to the effect of using group working technique to students’ descriptive writing ability at grade VIII SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi. The problems of the research are the students’ have low vocabularies, cannot string up the word become sentences, a little time it is 4 hours/week, students at the top of the ladder to finish the descriptive writing, do not interest about English lesson, have principle and bugbear that English is difficult. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of group working technique to students’ descriptive writing ability at grade VIII SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi This research applied experimental research. The population of this research is the VIII grade of SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi. The total of population are five classes. Then, the sample of the research was 2 classes, experiment class (VIII-5) and control class (VIII-4). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data researcher used test for measuring students’ descriptive writing ability. To analysis the data, researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that, the mean score of experiment and control class in pre test (37,42 < 40,6) the mean score of experimental class in post test higher than control class (74.31 > 54,5). and the score of t0 was bigger than tt (22,01 > 1,67). It means that the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of group working technique to students’ descriptive writing ability at SMP N 1 Lembah Sorik Marapi. Finally, the researcher suggested using group work technique was effective to improve students writing skill.

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