Improving the tenth grade students' recount writing achievement by using peer reponse technique at SMA Negeri 1 Sirah Pulau Padang

The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) whether or not there is any significant improvement on the tenth grade students’recount writing achievement who are taught by using Peer Response before and after the treatment at SMA N 1 Sirah Pulau Padang and (2) wether or not there is any significant difference in the tenth grade students’ recount writing achievement between those who are taught by using Peer Response Technique and those who are taught at SMA N 1 Sirah Pulau Padang. The sample of this study was taken by purposive sampling. So, the total number of the sample was 72 students. The sample were class X IPA 1 ( control group) which consisted of 36 and X IPA 2 (experimental group) which consisted of 36. In collecting the data the writer used test. The test was written test. The test was given twice to experimental and control group, as pretest posttest. To verify the hypothesis, the data pretest and posttest of the experimental and control groups were were analyses used paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS. The findings of this study showed that the p-output (0.014) was lower than 0.05 at significant 2-tailed and t-obtained (3.766) higher than t-table 1.9955 (with df=68). Therefore it could be stated that recount writing by using Peer Response Technique had a significant improvement on the students’ recount writing achievement. Therefore the result of this study is expected to contribute something for the development of the process of English teaching and learning especially for the teaching of writting recount text. Keywords: Writing Achievement , Recount Text, Peer Response. Writing for English Language Learners Strategy