The effect of applying sentence combining technique on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at mas al-ittihadiyah bromo in 2016/2017 academic year

This reserach was aime to know: (1) the students’ achievement in writing descriprtive text that was taught by using Sentence Combining Technique, (2) the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text that was taught by using lecturing method (3) whether there was significant effect on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at MAS Al-Ittihadiyah Bromo in 2016/2017 academic year. The researcher methodology of this research was an experimental research, which conducted the experiment and control class. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of MAS Al – Ittihadiyah Bromo in 2016/2017 academic year, the nimber of students was 39 students consist of two classess. The experiment class (X1) was 19 students and control class (X2) was 20 students as sample. The researcher gave writing test to collect the data. There were two test, pre-test and post-test. The formula that was used to analyze the data was indepedent sample t-test. The researcher found that the pre test mean of experiment class was 47,10 and post test 77,57. The pre test mean of control class 45,85 abd post-test mean was 60.1. it was found that tobservation was 9.01, whereas the t-table was 2,026 for α = 0,05. The tobservation was higher than the ttable (9.01 > 2.026), so Hα was accepted while H0 was rejected. It means that there was significant effect of Sentence Combining technique on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at MAS Al-Ittihadiyah Bromo in 2016/2017 academic year