THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING INDEX CARD MATCH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA WIDYA KUTOARJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

Writing is one of the basic skills that must be mastered by the students, besides speaking, listening and reading skill. Recount text is a kind of a text which is used to retell story in the past events. Index card match itself, is a method which is used to help the students to construct their ideas before starting to write recount text. The objectives of the study are (1) to know students’ writing ability of recount text of the tenth grade students of SMA WidyaKutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013 (2) to know the effect of using index card match in improving students’ writing ability in recount text of the tenth grade students of SMA WidyaKutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013. This research is held to get the data about students’ writing ability in recount text of the tenth grade students of SMA WidyaKutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013. The first problem is “how is their writing ability in recount text?”. The second problem is “is there any effect of using index card match to improve the students’ writing ability in recount text?”. The kind of this research is experimental research. The subjects of this research are the tenth grade students of SMA WidyaKutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013, they are 30 students. The instrument used to get the data is writing test. The data analysis techniques were descriptive and inferential analysis. The research result shows the data about students writing ability in recount text of the tenth grade students of SMA WidyaKutoarjo include in the good category, the mean score of writing recount text is 77.03. The research result also shows that there is significant effect of using index card match in improving students’ writing ability, the result of t-value is 5.18. Based on the 0.05 significant levels, the value of t-table is 2.000. The result shows that t-value is higher than ttable. Its means that the use index card match to improve students’ writing ability in recount text is effective.