The Effectiveness of Using Round Robin Technique in Teaching Writing of Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the Academic Year 2015/2016

Abstract

English is an international language that is used to interact with others around the world. For student by mastering English, it is easier to understand the various sources of learning. English is one of the foreign languages for Indonesian students that must be learnt in school since kindergarten level up to colleges. Writing is one of the skills that is very important to be mastered by the student. Writing skill is the abilities to express ideas or opinions in written English. There are many genres in writing text. The examples of genre of text are narative, procedure, report and descriptive .To increase student ability in acquiring writing ability, the teacher can use many techniques. One of the teaching technique that can be used in teaching writing of descriptive text is Round Robin Technique. The aim of this research is to describe whether Round Robin Technique is effective or not in teaching writing of descriptive text. The researcher took 32 students as the sample. The researcher used pre-test and post-test to collect the data. The researcher gave the treatment by teaching the students uses Round Robin Technique in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016. The researcher then statistically calculated the data by using t-test polled variance. After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching writing of descriptive text using Round Robin Technique is effective. As a matter of fact, the result of t-value is -15.48. The result shows that t-value is lower than t-table that is -15.48 < -2.04. So, it can be stated that the hypothesis “teaching writing of descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2015/2016 using Round Robin Technique is effective” is accepted.