THE EFFECT OF BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE OF VIII GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 23 JAMBI

This research was aims to analyze or find out the effect using Brainstorming strategy. This research was conducted on the students of class VIII SMPN 23 Jambi. The background of the problem in this study is that students are less motivated in writing. Therefore researcher use Brainstorming to improve students' understanding in Writing. In this research, researcher used the quasi experimental design, writer use 2 class that is class VIII 2 as experiment class which use Brainstorming strategy and class VIII 1 as control class using teacher strategy. The material taught is descriptive text. The instrument used is writing test. At the end of the meeting, the researcher gives the posttest. The final mean scores gained from both classes was analyzed by using T- test with significance level ɑ = 0.05. The results of the research show that there is a significant influence by using Brainstorming strategy in writing. The mean score of pre-test in experimental class was 36.11 with minimum score was 25 and maximum score was 67. The mean score of post-test in experimental class was 59.44 with minimum score was 32 and maximum score was 82. Meanwhile, the mean score of pre-test of control group was 36.06 with minimum score was 25 and maximum score was 58. The mean score of post test of control group was 51.17 with minimum score was 32 and maximum score was 72. So the researcher can conclude that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. It mean that there is significant effect of using Brainstorming strategy toward students’ writing competence at tenth grade in SMPN 23 Jambi