The Authentic Materials in Improving Students’ Writing Achievement
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatan signifikan secara statistik di dalam pencapaian siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif dan aspek menulis apa yang paling meningkat setelah siswa diajarkan menggunakan Authentic Materials. One group pretest posttest design digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 23 siswa kelas IX Smp Abdulrahman Ibnu Auf Bandar Lampung. Data penelitian dianalisis menggunakan Repeated Measure T-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan signifikan secara statistik pada nilai rata-rata pencapaian menulis siswa dengan level signifikansi 0.05 dan aspek menulis yang paling meningkat adalah aspek vocabulary diikuti dengan content, organization, mechanics, dan language use secara berurutan. Hal ini menandakan bahwa penggunaan authentic materials memberikan efek yang positif pada kemampuan menulis siswa.
This research aimed to find out whether there is statistically significant improvement of the students’ writing achivement and what aspect of writing improved the most after the students were taught by using authentic materials. One group pretest posttest design was used in this research. The subjects were 23 nine grade students of Smp Abdulrahman Ibnu Auf Bandar Lampung. The data were analyzed by using Repeated Measure T-test analysis. The result showed that there was a statistically significant increase in the students’ mean score of writing achivement (12.67 > 1.72) with the significant level 0.05 and vocabulary aspect was highly improved followed by content, organization, mechacnics, and language use respectively. This indicates that using authentic materials give a positive effect on students’ writing achievement.
Keywords: writing, descriptive text, authentic materials
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