The Implementation of Guiding Questions Technique in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan menulis teks deskriptif siswa setelah diajar melalui teknik guiding questions dan untuk mengungkapkan respon siswa terhadap teknik yang digunakan. Populasi penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas satu di salah satu SMA Negeri di Bandar Lampung pada tahun akademik 2018/2019. Sampel penelitian ini adalah X IIS 1 yang terdiri dari 28 siswa. Desain penelitian ini adalah one group pretest posttest. Data diambil dari tes dan kuesioner. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan pada kemampuan menulis siswa (p 0,05, p = 0,00). Selain itu, respon siswa terhadap penerapan teknik guiding questions adalah positif seperti polling dalam kuesioner menunjukkan nilai yang tinggi. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa teknik guiding questions memfasilitasi siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam menulis teks deskriptif. This research aimed to find out the improvement of students’ descriptive text writing ability after being taught through guiding questions technique and to investigate the students’ responses toward the technique used. The population of this research was the first grade students in one of the Senior High School in Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research was X IIS 1 which consisted of 28 students. The research design was one group pretest posttest. The data were taken from tests and questionnaire. The result showed that there was an improvement on the students’ writing achievement (p0.05, p=0.00), and it also proved that t-value is higher than t-table (146552771). In addition, the students’ responses toward the implementation of guiding questions technique was positive as the polling in questionnaire indicate to the higher score. It can be concluded that guiding questions technique facilitates the students to improve their ability in descriptive text writing. This research is in line with previous studies on the same topic. Keywords: writing, writing achievement, guiding questions techniqu