The Implementation of A Collaborative Technique in Improving Students Writing Descriptive Texts

Hatika Nesia, Cucu Sutarsyah, Ari Nurweni

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada perbedaan pada kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif setelah belajar melalui teknik kolaboratif. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Sasaran penelitian sebanyak 28 siswa. Tes menulis digunakan sebagai alat untuk pengambilan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan kemampuan menulis siswa yang signifikan dengan tingkat signifikansi 0.05. Hal ini menandakan bahwa teknik kolaboratif memberikan kesempatan kepada siswa dalam penyampaian dan mengembangkan ide dengan mudah.

The aim of this study is to find out whether there is a statistically significant difference of students writing ability in descriptive texts between the pretest and the posttest in the implementation of collaborative technique. This research was quantitative research. The subjects of this research were 28 students at the second year of SMP N 19 Bandar Lampung. The writing test was administrated as the instrument of the research. The result showed that there was a statistically significant difference of students writing ability between the pre test and the post test with significant level 0.05. This suggests that collaborative gives oppurtunities for students to share and develop the ideas more easily.

Keywords: collaborative technique, writing, descriptive text.


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