The Ability of Writing Descriptive Text of The Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 2 Kudus In The Academic Year 2013/2014 Taught By Using Estafet Writing
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- Nowadays, many students find the difficulties to produce a text. The difficulties is caused by several things: those are they can not write without guided by someone, they can not write without the suitable technique, and they also have difficulties when write the text individually. The student of Senior High School should be able to write a good text, because writing is very important for English learning process. The writer uses Estafet Writing technique in this research. Hopefully by using this technique of teaching, the students can write a good text easily. The purpose of this research are (i) To find out the ability of writing descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014 taught by using estafet writing (ii) To find out the ability of writing descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014 taught without using estafet writing (iii) To find out the significant difference between the ability of writing descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014 taught by and without using estafet writing. This is an experimental research. The writer uses two groups. The population used is the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 2 Kudus in the academic year 2013/2014 and the sample is two classes in the first semester. The material used is descriptive text. There are six meetings during the research, five meetings for treatment and one meeting for post test to find out the differences result of writing descriptive text ability taught by and without by using estafet writing. The result of the experiment shows that the mean of experiment class is 72.18 by standard deviation 8.15 and the mean of control class is 63.90 by standard deviation 8.75. It was found t-observation 3.70 in the level significance 5% from the degree of freedom (df) N-1 (29-1 = 28), and t-table (tt) 2.05. In other word t-observation is higher than t-table (to>tt). Therefore, it can be said that the null hypothesis is rejected, while the hypothesis of the research is confirmed. Based on the result of the research above, the writer suggests that teachers should use an interesting technique in teaching and learning process. It is to make students felt fun and active in class. So it can improve their writing ability.