The use of Suggestopedia in improving students’ achievement in writing procedure text on second year of junior high school student

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out whether there is significant improvement of students’ writing ability before and after being taught through Suggestopedia Method. By using a quantitative approach supported by a one group pretest and post-test design this research was carried out. The researcher chose second grade students at SMP 38 Bandar Lampung as a sample, which the number of students reached 22 in total. The data were collected from the results of the students' pre-test and post-test in written form containing the procedure text. The results show that there was an increase in students' writing ability after being taught with the help of a suggestopedia method. It can be proven by the results of data analysis showed that sig. (2-tails) 0.000 <0.05, in which the mean of both tests was analyzed using the Repeated Measure T-test with a significance level of 0.05. It can be also supported by the evidence that verifies the statements was the t-value which showed higher number than t-table by having the result 13.378 > 2.0. This research shows that Suggestopedia is a learning method which was successful for grade 2 junior high school students and content was the aspect of writing that had the most significant increase.

Keywords: teaching writing, procedure text, suggestopedia method, students‘ writing ability