THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING BRAINSTORMING STRATEGY TO THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT SMKN 1 KARANGANYAR KEBUMEN GRADE X IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

Writing is one of the skills of English in addition to speaking, reading and listening. Writing must be completed by the student but writing has never been easy. Most of students are getting difficult to write English due to English is their foreign language. Nowadays, there are some students who have a good skill in speaking but they can’t write English. Morever, they have difficulty to get and to develop the idea easily. Brainstorming is one of the strategies to teach writing. It can help the students to generate or to develop the idea. It is a way to get the idea easier and faster. Considering the difficulties of student in writing, the objective of this research is to know the effectiveness of teaching writing using brainstorming strategy and to know what stages the researcher undergoes to hold the brainstorming strategy in the classroom of vocational school students This research took 36 students of the tenth grade students of SMKN 1 Karanganyar as a sample. The research belonging the quantitative research. The type of this research is pre-experiment with paradigm one group pre-test and post test. The first meeting was a pre-test, the second meeting was a treatment and the third meeting was a post test. In view of the type of the research, the researcher uses the t-test to analyze the data. The result of the research shows that teaching writing using brainstorming strategy is effective. Since, the result was proved by the result of tvalue. The t-value was -2.236. Based on the 0.05 significance level, the value of the t-table is -1.994. The computation shows that the t-value was lower than ttable that was -2.236<-1.994. Moreover, there are many stages to hold brainstorming in a classroom of vocational school students. The first stage is the researcher makes a topic. Then, the students make the list of words about the topic in a paper. Third, the students narrow down the list of words which are related to the topic. Finally, the students use the words as the supporting details to develop the topics.