THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MODELLING THE WAY STRATEGY AS TEACHING STRATEGY TO TEACH WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 26 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

English as an international language is used for communication in most activities and field in the world. In Indonesia, English is taught to the students of elementary, junior, and senior high school, and even to university students as one of their subjects. The research is conducted to find how effective Modelling The Way Strategy for teaching descriptive text for improving writing ability of the seventh grade students of junior high school. The research is carried out at SMP N 26 Purworejo in April 2013.The population of the study is seventh grade students. The sample of the study is class A class as experimental group that consist of 32, and D class as control group that consists of 32 students. Dealing with the research instrument of collecting the data, the researcher makes some steps: (1) giving pretest to both experimental and control class; (2) applying the treatment to the experimental class and giving material to the control class; (3) giving post-test to both experimental and control class. To analyze the data, the researcher applies descriptive and inferential analyze using t-test. The result of the data computation indicates that t-score is 3.15 It means that t-score of this study is higher than the t-value on the t-table. The t-value on the t-table is 1.999 It means that the hypothesis is accepted. Based on the result of the study, using Modelling the Way Strategy is the effective for the students in writing a descriptive text. The researcher suggested that the use of Modelling the Way Strategy can be an alternative way to teach the language learner, especially to improve students’ writing ability. The students are expected to be more active during the teaching learning- process, so it can make the students interested and motivated in learning English. Moreover, they will get a better result.