The Effectiveness of using Demonstration Method in Teaching Procedure Text at the Seventh Grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Purwodadi in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The objectives of this research are (1) to describe the students’ writing ability in procedure text, and (2) to find out whether using demonstration method is effective or not in teaching writing procedure text at the seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purwodadi in the academic year of 2015/2016. This study belongs to Experimental research with pre test and post test group design as the research design. To collect the data, the researcher uses test essay as the instrument. The data is collected through writing test. The researcher takes two groups, namely: experimental group and control group. In the control group the researcher teaches using conventional technique, while in the experiment group the researcher teaches using demonstration method. The population of the study is the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purwodadi with the total number of the seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purwodadi is 60 students. The researcher takes only 40 students as her sample. From the test, it is known that the mean score of control group is 59.90, and it belongs to sufficient ability in writing. While the mean score of experimental group is 68.35 and it belongs to good ability in writing. The computation result of t-test is 2.735. The result of computation value this being compared to the ������������������������ at 0.05 significant level, the ������������������������ is 2.000. It is seen that the computation result (2.735) is higher than ������������������������ (2.02) in the significant level 0.05. From the result above, it could be concluded that there is significant difference in the achievement between the students who were taught using demonstration method and students who were taught without demonstration method. So, it could be concluded that the use of demonstration method is effective in teaching writing in procedure text at the seventh grade grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Purwodadi in the academic year 2015/2016.