THE EFFECT OF USING SWELL TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT TEXT ABILITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT GRADE VIII OF SMPN 6 MATARAM

Main Author: S, SRI HASTUTI NOVILA ANGGRAINI
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2014
Subjects:
Online Access: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/411/1/Thesis_%20sri%20hastuti%20n.a.s%20.pdf
http://eprints.unram.ac.id/411/
Daftar Isi:
  • SWELL is a technique which stands for Social-Interactive Writing for English Language Learners. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of using SWELL technique in teaching writing recount text. This research used an experimental single group design and the elected group of this research was VIII I grade which consists of 30 students. The sampling technique of this research was judgmental sampling. In collecting data, I used pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The finding showed that t-test value was higher than t-table. 6.12 > 2.045 at significant level .05 and 6.12 > 2.756 at significant level of .01 in degree of freedom (df) 29. It means that the Null Hypothesis (Ho) which stated that “There is no effect of using SWELL technique on students’ writing recount text ability” was rejected. While the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) that “There is an effect of using SWELL technique on students’ writing recount text ability” was accepted. It shows that SWELL technique was effective applied in teaching writing at grade VIII of SMPN 6 Mataram academic year 2013/2014.