IMPROVING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 PALEMBANG BY USING WHOLESOME SCATTERING GAME
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- Writing skill is the most complicated among the four skills because it needs extra thinking for making sentences and paragraph in English. Thus, the use of Wholesome Scattering Game was proposed to be implemented in teaching descriptive writing text to help students solve the problems. The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there were a significant difference in descriptive writing achievement after the students were taught by using Wholesome Scattering Game and a significant difference in descriptive writing achievement between the students who were taught by using Wholesome Scattering Game and those who were not. The population of this study was 424 tenth graders of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang. Seventy six students were selected as the sample by using Convenience sampling technique. These students were divided into an experimental and a control group and each group consisted of 38 students. To collect the data, a writing test (pretest and posttest) was given to the students. Then, the results of the tests were analyzed statistically by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test. The results of paired sample t-test showed that the p-value was lower than the significance level (0.00<0.05). It means that there was a significant difference in student’s descriptive writing achievement before and after the treatment. The result of independent sample t-test showed that the p-value was lower than significance level (0.00<0.05). It means that there was significant difference is descriptive writing achievement between the students who were taught by using Wholesome Scattering Game and those who were not. Therefore, Wholesome Scattering Game can be applied to improve the students’ descriptive writing achievement.