The Influence of Think-Talk-Write Technique on Students' Writing Ability at the First Grade of SMAN 1 Pringsewu

Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat apakah ada pengaruh yang signifikan dari teknik belajar Think-Talk-Write terhadap kemampuan menulis siswa dan apakah setiap aspek menulis meningkat secara signifikan setelah implementasi teknik tersebut. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah one group pretest – posttest. Data penelitian diperoleh melalui pretest dan posttest. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan dari teknik tersebut terhadap kemampuan menulis siswa sebab nilai signifikan yang kurang dari 0.05. Hasil selanjutnya menunjukkan bahwa teknik tersebut memberikan pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap aspek menulis siswa. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa teknik tersebut memfasilitasi siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis mereka. Abstract. The aims of this research were to investigate whether there was a significant influence of Think-Talk-Write technique on students’ ability in recount text writing and to find out whether each aspect of students’ writing improved significantly after the implementation of this technique. A one group pretest – posttest design was used in this research. The data were obtained through a pretest and a posttest. The result of this research showed that the students’ ability in recount text writing significantly improved after the implementation of this technique in which the significance value was lower than 0.05. Moreover, it also revealed that there was significant improvement on each aspect of writing after the implementation of this technique. This indicates that Think-Talk-Write technique facilitates the students to improve their writing ability. Keywords: Think-Talk-Write, writing ability, recount text, influence