THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ESTAFET WRITING TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 8 PURWOREJO
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2022-10-03
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY PURWOREJO MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY
Abstract
The result of this research using estafet writing strategy is not effective to
improve students’ writing descriptive text for students. This research is about the
effectiveness of estafet writing descriptive text in students’ of senior high school.
This research aims to find out whether there is any effectiveness or not by using
estafet writing to improve students’ writing descriptive text at tenth grade of SMA
N 8 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023. This research employed
quantitative research with a quasi-experimental design. The sample of this
research is X-5 as a Experimental Group and X-6 as a Control Group that consists
of 72 students. The data were taken on August 4th, 2022 until August 12th, 2022.
This research used pre-test and post-test as the instrument. The researcher gave
pre-test to each group before giving the treatment. For the experimental group, the
treatment was given making descriptive text using estafet writing strategy, while
for the control group, the treatment was given making descriptive text without
using estafet writing strategy. At the end of the research, both groups were given a
post-test. The mean of experimental class’s post-test was 61.81. Meanwhile, the
mean of control class’s post-test was 66.11. The mean of control class is higher
than experimental class. From the calculation of test, it shows that z-value is
higher than z-table (0.052>0.05) so the test results of hypothesis is the null
hypothesis (Ho) is accepted. Based on the data above, the use of method estafet
writing to improve students’ writing descriptive text at the tenth grade of SMA N
8 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023 is not effective.