THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COLLABORATIVE WRITING METHOD TO TEACH WRITING SKILL VIEWED FROM STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY

This research is aimed at finding out whether: (1) Collaborative Writing is more effective than Direct Instruction to teach writing to the third semester students of State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2012/2013; (2) the students having high creativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity and (3) there is an interaction effect between teaching methods and students’ creativity in teaching writing skill. The method which was applied in this research was experimental study. The research was conducted at State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2012/2013. The population of this research was the third semester students of State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metro. The class C was used as the experimental class and class B as the control class. Each of the class consists of 40 students. The experiment group was treated by using Collaborative Writing, while the control group was treated by using Direct Instruction. The data analysis shows the following finding: (1) Collaborative Writing is more effective than Direct Instruction to teach writing for the third semester students of State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2011/2012; (2) the students who have high creativity have better writing achievement than the achievement of those who have low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching method and student’s creativity to teach writing at the third semester students of State Islamic College (STAIN) of Jurai Siwo Metr