Improving Students Achievement in Procedure Text Writing Through Small Group Discussion Technique

Text writing is one aspect of writing skills that should be acquired by the Senior high school students. Unfortunately, many students still face difficulties in writing text, in this case procedure text. Thus, this thesis discusses about Improving Students Achievement in Procedure Text Writing through Small Group Discussion Technique. The problem in this research: Is the use of Small Group Discussion technique effective to increase students Procedure text writing of the Tenth year students of SMA Negeri 1 Sukadana. This research was conducted to identify the effectiveness of improving procedure text writing through Small Group Discusssion technique. This is a quasi-experimental research and the sample of this research are 37 students of class XB and XC. The data is collected by measurement technique. The tool of data collecting is writing test. The result of t-test computation is 11.6 that is higher than t-table (2.045). it mean that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which states the use of small group discussion technique is effective in improving students achievement in procedure text writing to tenth year students of SMA Negeri 1 Sukadana, Kabupaten Kayong Utara in Academic Year of 2011 2012 is accepted. In conclision, the use of small group discusssion is highly effective to improve the students ability in procedure text wrtiting