THE INFLUENCE OF USING SNOWBALL THROWING STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs YAPENBAYA SOUTH LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF USING SNOWBALL THROWING STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE SECOND SEMESTER AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs YAPENBAYA SOUTH LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. By: ISTIKOMAH This research was conducted in MTs Yapenbaya South Lampung. Based on preliminary research that was done in the school, there were many students who had low ability in writing especially narrative text. The strategy that the teacher used to teach the students was not interesting to express the students’ idea in writing. Therefore, the research applied Snowball Throwing strategy as an effective strategy to train students to be more responsive to receive message to a friend of the group. The objective of the research was to find out whether there was a significant influence of using Snowball Throwing strategy towards students’ narrative text writing ability at the second semester of the eighth grade of MTs Yapenbaya South Lampung in the academic year of 2017/2018. The research methodology was quasi experimental design. Population of this research was the eighth grade of MTs Yapenbaya South Lampung. The researcher took two classes consisting of 30 students for experimental class and 32 students for control class. In experimental class, the researcher used Snowball Throwing strategy, where as in control class the researcher used Expository strategy. The treatments were held in 3 meetings in which 2 x 40 minutes for each meeting. After doing the data analysis, it was found that there was a significant influence of using Snowball Throwing strategy toward students’ narrative text writing ability at the second semester of the eighth grade of MTs Yapenbaya South Lampung. It can be seen from the result of T-test was 3.5 and of tcritical was 1.67. The criteria to know whether the hypothesis is accepted or not, was tobserved higher than 1.67. This result means that there is a significant influence of using Snowball Throwing strategy towards students’ narrative text writing ability at the second semester of the eighth grade of MTs Yapenbaya South Lampung in the academic year 2017/2018. Keyword : Narrative Text, Snowball Throwing strategy, Student’ Writing Ability, Quasi Experimental Research