Abstract:
Writing is one of big problems for the students in this teaching learning process. Moreover, there is analytical exposition text as one of materials to achieve. This study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of using guided questions in teaching writing to eleventh grade students of SMAN 8 Purworejo, and how are the students’ skill in writing analytical exposition text of eleventh grade of SMAN 8 Purworejo.
This research was done at SMAN 8 Purworejo on May 2014. It is experimental research that takes two classes to compare between the result of using and not using guided questions in teaching writing of analytical exposition text. Here, the researcher takes the samples from eleventh grade of XI IPS 1 as experimental group and XI IPS 4 as control group. The researcher makes some steps in collecting data: first is giving pre-test to both experimental and control class; second is applying the treatment to the experimental class by using guided questions in teaching writing analytical exposition text and giving material to the control group without using guided questions technique; and the last is giving post-test to both experimental and control group. To analyze the data, the researcher applies descriptive and inferential analyze using t-test.
The result of the research leads to the conclusion that the average score of the students who are taught writing analytical exposition text by using guided questions which is as experimental group is 76. That result is a good categorize while the average score of the students who are taught writing analytical exposition text without using guided questions is 70. In other word, the use of guided questions is effective in teaching writing of analytical exposition text. Looking at the result of t-test, the t-test of level significant 0.05 shows t-obtained value is 4.559 and t-table value is 2.00, it means that t-value is higher than t-table. It means that Ha is accepted, so it can be concluded that using guided questions in teaching writing of analytical exposition text to eleventh grade students of SMAN 8 Purworejo in academic year 2013/2014 is effective.
