THE EFFECT OF USING PEER RESPONSE GROUPS TECHNIQUE TOWARD WRITING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF DAREL HIKMAH PEKANBARU

Based on the preliminary research at the Second Year Students of Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru, the writer found that most of the students’ writing ability was still less than enough. This problem was caused by some factors. For example, some of the students got difficulties in expressing their idea in writing. So, the writer was interested in carrying out a research about this problem. The research was administered at Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru. The subject of the research was the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru, and the object of this research was to find out the effect of using peer response groups technique toward writing ability in narrative at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru. The design of this research was quasiexperimental research. The population of this research was all of the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru. The total number of population was 126 students. Because the number of population was large, the researcher used random sampling by taking two classes as sample; X1 A2 that consisted of 21 students as experimental group, and XI B1 that consisted of 21 students as control group, So the number of samples from two classes was 42 students. The technique of data analysis used T-test formula in order to find out the difference of students’ mean score between experimental class and control class by using SPSS 16 version. The students’ score was compared with T-table considered with degree of freedom (df). Based on the data analysis, researchers found there is a significant effect of using peer response groups technique toward writing ability at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru. It can be seen from the t-test calculation. T-test calculating is 5.455. It is higger than standard on the critic table of the T-test that is 2.72 in 1% or 2.02 in 5%, it can be read 2.022.72. Regarding the result above, Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected