THE EFFECT OF USING RUNNING DICTATION STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 11 PEKANBARU
Daftar Isi:
- at State Ssenior High School 11 Pekanbaru got difficulties on their ability in writing descriptive texts. Some of the students were difficult to identify generic structure of descriptive texts. Then, this research was aimed to find out the effect of using Running Dictation Strategy on students’ ability in writing descriptive texts. This research was Experimental Research. The design was quasiexperimental research. Thus, this research used experimental and control groups. The writer formulated the problems that have been answered by using quantitative research. The subject of the research was the eleventh grade students at State Senior High School 11 Pekanbaru. The object of this research was effect of Running Dictation Strategy on students’ ability in writing descriptive texts. The samples of the research were taken by using cluster random sampling. The data were collected by using test and analyzed with SPSS version 16 and Independent sample t-test. The result of this research was: first, students who taught using Running Dictation strategy class had better on their ability than students taught without using Running Dictation Strategy. The result could be seen from the mean of post test score’ students in experimental class, 75.13 is higher than control class, 65.22. Then, it could be concluded, H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. Second, Running Dictation Strategy gave large effect on students’ writing ability in writing descriptive texts. From the research finding, it was concluded that teaching writing by using Running Dictation strategy gave large effect on students’ ability in writing descriptive texts of the eleventh grade at State Senior High School 11 Pekanbaru. Keywords: Effect, Students’ ability in writing descriptive texts, Running Dictation Strategy