THE EFFECT OF BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE AS A PRE-WRITING ACTIVITY ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMAN 1 PRINGSEWU

Eva Rahmawati, Mahpul Mahpul, Huzairin Huzairin

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh teknik brainstorming terhadap prestasi menulis siswa. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 33 siswa tingkat pertama sekolah menengah atas (SMA). 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 antara pre-test dan post-test dengan tingkat signifikansi 0,05. Hal ini menandakan bahwa teknik brainstorming dapat diterapkan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis siswa.

The objective of this research was to find out the effect of brainstorming technique on the students’ writing achievement. The approach of the research was quantitative. The subjects were 33 students of the first grade of SMA. 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 statistically significant difference of the students’ writing ability between the pre-test and the post-test with the significant level of 0.05. This suggests that brainstorming technique facilitates the students to improve their ability in writing skills.

Keywords: writing, writing ability, brainstorming technique

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