Abstract:
Reading is one of the most important language skills. Effective strategy
for improving student writing is having them read their words aloud. The strategy
involves reading storybooks aloud to students, explaining unfamiliar words, and
leading them into thoughtful discussions around the text. Reading including
written language skills that is receptive. In reading, there is a communication
process between the author the reader with a way of seeing the symbols written
language involves understanding, thinking, understanding, and feeling so as to
understand the meaning contained in the written language. For junior high school
students, reading aloud strategy is very important to improve writing ability,
because it is a tool to obtain information from the field of science that needs to be
read by students who are developing their intellectual capabilities. Writing
learning in schools has not been through the correct process. Teachers often
delegate the task of writing without giving proper steps to be able to produce good
work.
The objective of this research is to find out whetheror not there is any
effect of using reading aloud strategy to improve student’ writing ability .it is
conducted in order to know whether reading aloud strategy gives the advantages
towards thestudent’ writing ability. This research is an experimental research
which has conducted on the eighth grade students of SMP N 33 Purworejo in the
school year of 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher took 66 students as the
sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used class VIII B which consist
of 33 students. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 33 students
of class VIII C. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes.
The test is the make a paragraph after the teacher read aloud the story about
descriptive text. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test
separated variance.
The result of this research shows that it is effective of using reading aloud
strategy to improve students’ writing ability, since it was found that the result of tvalue
is 2.057. Based on the 0.05 significant level, the value t-table is 1.999, the
computation shows that t-value is higher that t-table that is 2.057> 1.999. The
research findings indicate the students are interested in learning writing using
reading aloud strategy.
