THE INFLUENCE OF USING THINK-TALK-WRITE (TTW) STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF EIGHTH GRADE OF MTS DARUL ULUM BATURAJA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

This research was conducted based on the preliminary research that are many students considered writing was difficult. The students still cannot develop and express their idea in writing and the class condition was less attractive. The students’ announcement text writing score was below the criteria minimum mastery (KKM) at MTs Darul Ulum Baturaja. The objective of the research was to find out whether there was influence of Using Think-Talk-Write (TTW) strategy towards students’ announcement text writing ability at the second semester of eighth grade of MTs Darul Ulum Baturaja in academic year 2017/2018. The methodology of this research was quasi experimental design with the treatment held in 3 meetings, 2 x 40 minutes for each meeting. The population of this research was the eighth grade of MTs Darul Ulum Baturaja. The total sample in this research was 59 students that were taken from two classes, X and O. In collecting the data, the researcher used instruments pre-test and post-test. The instrument was announcement writing test. After giving the post-test, the researcher analyzed the data by using independent sample t-test. From the data analysis, it was found that the result of test was tobserved (4.3448) with tcritical (2.660), it means that the score of tobserved was higher than tcritical, so Ha is accepted. So, there was influence of Think-Talk-Write strategy towards students’ announcement text writing ability at the second semester of the eighth grade of MTs Darul Ulum Baturaja. Keywords: Announcement Text, Think-Talk-Write (TTW), Quasi Experimental Design, Writing Abilit