Abstract:
English is one of the languages that is used widely in the world. People use
it to communicate with other people from many parts of the world. There are four
language skills which should be mastered in learning English, i.e. listening,
speaking, reading and writing. Writing is an important skill. Teaching writing
requires some important factors to support the classroom activities. One of the
factors is the method, to increase the students’ writing ability, the method should
be based on the students’ interest and competence. To improve the writing ability
of the first grade students in SMA N 8 Purworejo, guided brochure can be used as
the alternative for the writing method.
The aim of this research is to know whether there is effectiveness in using
brochure in teaching writing of procedure text to the first-grade students of the
SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. In this research, the
researcher took 64 students of the first grade of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the
academic year 2012/2013 as the sample. The researcher conducted pre-test and
post-test. The researcher use brochure to teach writing of procedure text.
Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test.
The result of the research shows that teaching writing using brochure is
effective and gives a positive contribution toward the writing ability of the firstgrade
students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. It was
found that the result of t-value is 3.56. Based on the 0.05 significance level. The
value of t-table is 2.021, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table
that is 3.56>2.021.
