THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMAN 14 BANDAR LAMPUNG
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Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan menulis teks deskriptif siswa setelah diajar melalui teknik roundtable dan untuk menyelidiki persepsi siswa terhadap teknik. Populasi penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas satu SMAN 14 Bandarlampung pada tahun akademik 2018/2019. Sampel penelitian ini adalah X MIA 1 yang terdiri dari 30 siswa. Desain penelitian ini adalah one group pretest posttest. Data diambil dari tes dan kuesioner. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan pada kemampuan menulis siswa (p <0,05, p = 0,00). Nilai rata-rata pretest adalah 56,93, dan posttest adalah 73,48. Selain itu, persepsi siswa terhadap penerapan teknik roundtable adalah positif. Mayoritas siswa sepakat bahwa teknik ini adalah teknik menarik dan memberi mereka manfaat. Oleh karena itu, hal ini menandakan bahwa teknik roundtable memfasilitasi siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam menulis teks deskriptif.
The objectives of this research were to find out the improvement of students’ descriptive text writing ability after being taught through roundtable technique and to investigate the students’ perception toward the technique. The population of this research was the first grade students of SMAN 14 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research was X MIA 1 which consisted of 30 students. The research design was one group pretest posttest. The data were taken from tests and questionnaire. The result showed that there was an improvement in the students’ writing ability (p<0.05, p=0.00). The mean score of the pretest was 56.93, and the posttest was 73.48. In addition, the students' perception toward the implementation of roundtable technique was positive. The majority of the students agreed that this technique was an interesting technique which gave them benefits. Therefore, this suggests that roundtable technique facilitates the students to improve their ability in descriptive text writing.
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