The effect of task based method on students’ ability in writing procedural text at SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan

The problems of this research are: 1) if the teacher gives the student homework, they are often do it in school. it makes them cheating the paper of their friend. 2) During composing the writing, the students tend to ignore some major parts of the composition on their paper. They also lack verification of what they have been written after they finish. The consequence of the act is that usually there are many mistakes in the structure of their paper. The objective of the research was to examine whether there is a significant effect of task based method on students’ ability in writing procedural text. In order to achieve the purpose of this research, the writer carried out the quantitative approach by applying experimental research. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA NEGERI 8 Padangsidimpuan. They were X-1 is 26 students, X-2 is 28 students, X=3 is 24 students, X-4 is 26 students, X-5 is 28 students, X-6 is 26 students. So thepopulations are 158 students. The writer used X-1 and X-2 as the sample. In collecting the data, the instrument was essay test. To analyze the data, it was used t-test formula. Based on the data, it was found that (1) the students’ ability in writing procedural text by using task based method as “enough” (67), (2) the students’ ability in writing procedural text by using discussion methodas “enough” (62,8), and (3) there is significant effect of task based method on students’ ability in writing procdural text at SMA Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan rather than discussion method. (ts = 2,377), categorized as “low”. It means that the hypothesis is accepted