THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 33 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

English is an international language. Almost all of countries in the world have applied English as a compulsory subject at schools. Therefore, there are four basic skills in studying English that must be acquired by students. Those are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing is one of the four language skills that are very important in studying English, so the students have to study it. Teaching writing in junior high school is not easy. Even though the students have studied the language for many years, they still have some difficulties to write English text, especially descriptive text. Therefore, the teachers have to use an appropriate technique for them. Brainstorming technique can help them to generate their ideas and it can improve their writing skill. The purpose of this research is to find out an answer whether there is effectiveness of using brainstorming technique or not for teaching writing skill of descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 33 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the researcher takes 64 students as sample. The researcher takes 32 students of class VIII A as experimental group. Meanwhile, the researcher takes 32 students of class VIII C as control group. The instrument to collect data is an essay test. The researcher conducts pretest and posttest. The researcher uses brainstorming technique to teach writing skill of descriptive text to experimental group and usual way to control group. The researcher analyzes the data by using t-test polled variance statistically. The result of the data shows that the result of t-value is 2.322. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the value of the t-table is 1.999. The computation shows that the t-value is higher than the t-table that is 2.322 > 1.999. It means that teaching writing skill of descriptive text using brainstorming technique is effective and gives a positive contribution toward the eighth grade students of SMP N 33 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014