The Use of Collaborative Technique in Improving Students’ Descriptive Writing Ability at The First Grade of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo
Abstract
The objectives of this research are to find out whether there is significant improvement on students’ writing skill of descriptive text after the implementation of collaborative technique and also to find out the aspects of writing that improved the most after using the collaborative technique. The population of this research is first grade student of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research is class X Mia 2 that consisted of 36 students. The data were in forms of writing scores taken from pretest and posttest and analyzed by using Repeated Measure T-test in which the significance was determined by p<0.05. The result of this research shows that statistical computations indicated significant value of posttest-pretest was lower than 0.05. Therefore, the hypothesis of the research was accepted. The mean score of pretest is 72.09 and the mean score of posttest is 77.23. It means that the students’ score improved about 5.14. Briefly, it can be concluded that collaborative technique can facilitate the students in writing descriptive text.
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