THE EFFECTIVENESS OF READING ALOUD STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 33 PURWOREJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

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.