The Use of Authentic Material in Increasing Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text

Nurul Erdawaty, Patuan Raja, Feni Munifatullah

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti i) apakah ada peningkatan signifikan pada keterampilan pemahaman menulis siswa sebelum dan setelah penerapan authentic material ii) aspek menulis yang paling meningkat setelah penerapan authentic material. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 30 siswa tingkat kedua SMP. Tes menulis digunakan sebagai alat pengumpulan data. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan Repeated Measure t-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan signifikan pada kemampuan menulis siswa dengan tinggat signifikansi 0.05. Isi adalah aspek menulis yang paling meningkat setelah penerapan authentic material. Hal ini menandakan bahwa authentic material dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis siswa.


The objectives of this research were to investigate whether there was statisfically significant improvement of the students’ ability in writing descriptive texts after being taught through the authentic materials. The approach of the research was quantitative. The subjects were 30 students of the second grade of junior high school. The writing tests were used as the research instrument. The data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure t-test. The result showed that there was a statically significant difference of the students’writing achievement with the significant level 0.05. Furthermore, content is the aspect of writing improves the most after the implementation of authentic materials. This suggests that authentic materials facilitate the students to improve their ability in writing skills.


Keywords: Writing, Descriptive Text, Authentic Materials.


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