THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDING QUESTION TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

Writing skill became very important in the education field, the students need to be exercised and trained in order to have a good writing skill. Guiding question is the fundamental query that directs the search for understanding. This technique provides a list of questions that can make the students think about the topic. This technique is expected to give guidance about what should be included in students’ writing. By used guiding questions technique, the students would not be confused of what to write first and next because they have guidance in its process. The purpose of this research is to identify the effectiveness of guiding question technique for teaching writing. This research was a quantitative research which used a one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Alalak in the second semester of academic year 2019/2020. The research took one class as the sample and it was VIII B which consisted of 26 students. A writing test of recount text was applied to collect the data. The data were use dependent t-test formula with the help of SPSS by using dependent t-test formula. The result of this research showed that the t value is 24.826 while the critical t-value of 5% from one tailed test is 2.060. This shows that the work hypothesis is accepted because the obtained t-value exceeds the critical t-value