THE INFLUENCE OF GUIDED WRITING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP N 3 METRO IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF GUIDED WRITING TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT SMP N 3 KOTA METRO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021 By: MARIA ULFA Most of the students in junior high school especially in eighth grade had difficulties to write in English. The problems were they had difficulties in collecting the ideas in text, low motivation in writing, they were not interested in the writing and also they did not know how to start for writing. Besides that, guided writing technique as an alternative in teaching that could be used in teaching writing. Guided writing technique could help the student to improve their writing ability. The aim of this research was to know whether 0qthere is any significant influence in writing descriptive text of students by using Guided Writing Technique. This research used Quasi Experimental Design that used Cluster Random Sampling. They were 32 students for experimental class. In order to collect the data, this research used writing test as the instrument. There was pre-test which was held before they were given treatment in experimental class and post-test was held after given the treatment. The result of this research, it was obtained that Sig=0.115 and α=0.05. It can be concluded that the Ha is accepted and there is significant influence of Guided Writing Technique towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text at the eighth grade at SMP Negeri 3 Kota Metro in the academic year of 2020/2021. Keywords: Descriptive Text, Guided Writing, Quasi Experimental Design, Writing Ability