THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SENTENCE COMBINING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT at SMPN 4 TANJUNG JABUNG TIMUR

This study discussed about using Sentence Combining Technique on students’ Writing Achievement at SMPN 4 Tanjung Jabung Timur. The goals of the research are to find out the effect of Sentence Combining Technique on Students’ Writing Achievement after being taught by using Sentence Combining Technique and to find out significant different between students’ who are taught by using Sentence Combining Technique and those who are not. This research used pretest-posttest control group design with quantitative approach. Sample of the research were 46 students which experimental class was 23 students and control class 23 students by using cluster random sampling. The data collection is used pre-test and post-test. Data analysis is used written test. The result of this research shows that applying Sentence Combining Technique affected on students’ Writing Achievement. It can be seen at paired sample t- test and independent sample t-test. The result of the average students’ writing score from the same group who taught by Sentence Combining Technique got score 0.000 which can be seen from criteria of hypothesis if the score lower than 0.05 it means Ha is accepted. And the result of independent sample t- test shows that the mean of different was 8.32609 and the significant 2-tailed ≤ 0.05 (0.001 ≤ 0.05). It can be seen there are difference effect of students’ writing achievement between experimental and control class. To sum up, it can be concluded that there was any difference significant effect of students’ writing achievement between students’ who were taught by using Sentence Combining Technique and students who were taught by using conventional technique at SMPN 4 Tanjung Jabung Timur