THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING THINK-TALK-WRITE (TTW) TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT OF ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK MUHAMMADIYAH KUTOWINANGUN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

This research aims to find out The Effectiveness of Using Think-Talk-Write Strategy to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Procedure Text. In order to know the effectiveness, the researcher compares the result of teaching by using common strategy with the result of teaching using Think-Talk-Write. This research is called experimental research. The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah Kutowinangun in the academic year of 2013/2014. The total number of the population in this research is 392 students from ten classes. The sample of this research is 54 students from two classes, XI AV A consist of 27 students as the control group, and XI AV B consist of 27 students as the experimental group. The research is conducted from 14th May up to 24th May 2014 in SMK Muhammadiyah Kutowinangun. The result of this research found that the use of Think-Talk-Write strategy is effective to improve students’ ability in writing procedure text. In this research, there is positive and significant effect of using think-talk-write strategy to improve students’ ability in writing procedure text. The result compared to the value of ttable (8.457>1.706). Then, the computation of t-test shows that the Ha is accepted. The highest score from the whole score – both control and experimental, and both pre-test and post-test, was 85. It was achieved after they got the treatments in experimental group. Then, the lowest score was 65. The lowest score was achieved by the student in control group. After the test, the average scores were found that the mean pre-test of the experimental group was 54.56, and the experimental group has mean score 76.15 in post-test. Moreover, the mean pre-test of the control group was 50.66, while the post-test of control group has mean score 52.94. The researcher concludes that the use of think-talk-write strategy is effective to improve the students’ ability in writing procedure at the eleventh grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah Kutowinangun in the academic year 2013/2014.