COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AUTHENTIC AND MODIFIED MATERIALS IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

Reininta Kesuma Redante, Patuan Raja, Mahpul Mahpul

Abstract


Tujuan penilitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada perbedaan yang signifikan pada nilai menulis siswa antara siswa yang diajar melalui materi otentik dan modifikasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan dilaksanakan pada 32 siswa kelas VIII3 dan 32 siswa kelas VIII4. Test menulis digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data. Data dihitung menggunakan Independent Group T-Test of SPSS. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa ada perbedaan yang signifikan pada nilai menulis siswa antara siswa yang diajar melalui materi otentik dan modifikasi. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari nilai rata-rata siswa pada kelas VIII3 meningkat dari 69.37 (pre-test) ke 80.04 (post-test) dan pada kelas VIII4 nilai rata-rata siswa meningkat dari 69.34 (pre-test) ke 82.62 (post-test). Dengan kata lain, materi modifikasi lebih baik digunakan untuk mengajar menulis teks deskriptif bahasa Inggris dibandingkan dengan materi otentik.

The aim of this research was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference of the students writing achievement between students who were taught through authentic and modified materials. This research used quantitative approach and was conducted to 32 students in class VIII3 and 32 students in class VIII4. Writing test was used to collect the data. The data were calculated by using Independent Group T-Test of SPSS. The result of the data analysis showed that there was a significant difference of the students writing achievement between students who were taught through authentic and modified materials. It could be seen from students mean score in class VIII3 increased from 69.37 (pre-test) to 80.04 (post-test) and in class VIII4, students mean score increased from 69.34 (pre-test) to 82.62 (post-test). In short, modified material was better for teaching descriptive text writing English than authentic material.

Keywords: authentic material, modified material, writing achievement.

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