The Ability Of The Eigth Grade Students of SMP 02 Trangkil Pati In The Academic Year 2011/2012 In Writing Descriptive Text Taught By Using Parallel Writing Technique. Skripsi

Many people think that being able to write well is talent that one either has or does not have. Actually everyone will be able to write effectively if they are writing to learn some strategies and practice them. There are some problems in the writing skill. One of them is students regard that writing is not easy. Besides, there is an internal factor; students are usually afraid in arranging or making text in English. So, the students are lazy to write down their idea on a paper. Their low creativity writing needs some method and special technique in order to appeal their attention. One way to increase their creativity is invite the students to active in direct practice. To solve the students’ problem to share their idea on written, parallel writing technique is used to teach them in motivating their writing skill. This research has a purpose to find out the answer from the statement of the problem. The purpose is to find out whether or not there is any significant difference between the ability of writing descriptive texts of the eight grade students of SMP 02 Trangkil Pati in the academic year of 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using Parallel Writing Technique.” This is a quantitative research. The method of the research is experimental. This design of the research is the experimental method which uses pretest and posttest. The population is the eight grade students of SMP 02 Trangkil Pati in the academic year 2011/2012. The total number of the population is 222 students. That divided into six classes. There are for class A until class F. The sample is taken one class from the population by using cluster random sampling through lottery. The data were taken from the written test. After the students were given the pretest, they were given the treatment for six meeting. The giving of the treatment relies on the material that taken from the syllabus of the school. Then, the data were analyzed using the t-test method to find out whether or not there is a significant difference between the Ability In Writing Descriptive Texts of The Eight Grade Students of SMP 02 Trangkil Pati in The Academic Year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using Parallel Writing Technique. The result of the research, the mean of pretest is 64,6 and the mean of posttest is 72,8. It can be concluded that the t-observation 4,6 in the level of significance = 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 34 which is gained from N-1, the t-table is 2,04. Thus, H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. So, the hypothesis states, “There is any significant difference between the ability in writing descriptive texts of the eight grade students of SMP 02 Trangkil Pati in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using Parallel Writing” is accepted. I hope this study can be used by the teacher as one way to enrich the reference about improving the students’ writing skill in the eight grade students, and also as a consideration for the teacher to choose parallel writing technique as an alternative technique to help and make students write the composition easily