The Abilty of Writing Recount Text of The Eighth Grade Students of SMP 1 Mejobo Kudus in the Academic Year 2013/ 2014Taught by Using Guiding Questions Technique

Septianingsih, Ria. 2013. The Abilty of Writing Recount Text of The Eighth Grade Students of SMP 1 Mejobo Kudus in the Academic Year 2013/ 2014Taught by Using Guiding Questions Technique. Skripsi. English Education Departmen, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (i) Drs. Muh. Syafei. M.Pd. (ii) Mutohhar, S.Pd, M.Pd. Key Words:Guiding Questions Technique, Writing, Recount Text. Writing is one of important skills which must be taught to Junior High School. Writing is the ability to write something that develops the idea to be a good paragraph. Students cannot write well because they have limited knowledge in English grammar and vocabulary. There fore the teacher should have alternative ways to teach in writing. To solve the students problem to share their idea on written, Guiding Questions Technique is used to teach them in motivating their writing skill. The objective of the research is to find out whether or not there is any significant difference between the ability of writing recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2013/ 2014 before and after being taught by using guiding questions technique. This is an experimental research. The population is the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2013/ 2014. The total number of the population is 270 students. They are grouped into nine classes. The sample is taken one class from the population by using cluster random sampling through lottery. The writergotVIII E which consistsof 34students.The writer gavewritten tests;apre-test and post-test. There sult of the ability of writing recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014, the mean of pre-test is 61.50 and the mean of post-test is 72.90. It’s concluded that t-observation is 7.86 in the level of significance(α)= 0.05 and the degree of freedom(df) 29whichis gained from N-1,thet-tableis2.05. Thus, Hoisdenied and Ha is confirmed. So the hypothesis state, “there is any significant difference between the ability of writing recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014 before and after being taught by using Guiding Questions Technique” is confirmed. The writer hope the study can be used by teacher as one way to enrich the reference about improving the students writing skill in the eighth grade students, and also as a consideration for the teacher to choose guiding questions technique as an alternative to help and make the students write recount text easily.