The Effectiveness of Using Peripheral Learning in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade students of SMK TKM Purworejo in the Academic year 2015/2016

Abstract

The objectives of this study is intended to find out whether or not using peripheral learning in teaching writing descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMK TKM Purworejo in the academic year 2015/2016. This research belongs to quantitative research with post-test-pretest group design. In this research, population is the tenth grade students of SMK TKM Purworejo with the total number of population is 360 students and the sample of this research is 70 students, from class XTPC as control group and XTPMIB as experimental group. The researcher takes the sample by using purposive sampling technique because of limited time. The researcher uses essay test to get the data of writing text ability.The researcher analyzes the data by using descriptive statistics to find mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation and variance, whereas inferential analysis is used to prove the hypothesis test in the significance level 0.05. The result of the data analysis shows that the mean score of pre-test from control group is 58.31(good) and pre-test experimental group is 61.80(good). The score is increasing 5.43points with the percentage of increasing is 15.51%. Besides, the mean score of the mean score of post-test control group is 63.74 (sufficient) and the mean score of post-test experimental group is 73.43(sufficient). The score is increasing 11.63 points with the percentage of increasing is 33.23 %.By comparing the mean score of both groups, it is clear that the mean score of post-test from experimental group is higher the than the mean score of post-test from control group. The increasing value of experimental group also higher than the increasing value of control group. In addition, the result of ttest based on the manual computation and SPSS 16.0 computation using Independent T-test shows that the p-value (Sig. 2-tailed) is 0.00 at the 95% confidence interval of the differences. It can be concluded that t-value 4.917 with level significance 5% t-table is 2.00. It shows that t-value is higher than t-table (4.967>2.00).It is significance because the Sig. (2-tailed) is lower than 0.05 (0.00<0.05). Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that using Peripheral Learning in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text at the Tenth Grade Students of SMK TKM Purworejo in the Academic Year 2015/2016 is effective.