THE USE OF FREE-WRITING STRATEGY IN TEACHING WRITING AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 1 PAJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

Free-writing refers to the act of writing quickly for a set of time from ten to fifteen minutes, just putting down whatever is in mind, without pausing and worrying about what words to use, and without going back to modify what has been written. In order, the researcher focused to investigate whether the use of free-writing strategy has effect or not in teaching writing as the first purpose in this study, and the second one is to analyze the significant different between the students are taught using Free-writing strategy and without using Free-writing strategy in teaching writing at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Pajo in academic year 2018/2019. This research was quasi-experimental design and the population of this research was 50 students. Besides, the sample from an experimental class consists of 25 students and a control class consists of 25 students. To analyze the data, the researcher used the SPSS program. The results of the data analysis show that the average score of the experimental class was 58.60, and the average score of the control class was 48.60. From the results of the analysis, it means that Ha was accepted. Thus, the use of free-writing strategy haseffectand significant different in teaching writing at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Pajo in academic year 2018/2019. Key words: free-writing strategy, writin