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%T DEVELOPING THE STUDENTS? ABILITY IN WRITING
RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH GUIDING QUESTIONS
TECHNIQUE AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
OF SMPN 1 TERBANGGI BESAR
LAMPUNG TENGAH
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%X Abstract

Writing is a skill in which we express the ideas, feelings, and thoughts arranged in
words, sentences and paragraphs using eyes, brain, and hand (Raimes, 1983: 76).
According to 2006 curriculum, School Based Curriculum / KTSP, the goal of
teaching learning at Junior High School is that the students must be able to
develop communicative competence in written form as well as in spoken form to
achieve functional literacy level. In this curriculum, the English material is taught
based on the text. One of the texts that have to be learnt is recount `text. The
problem is, recount text writing is not only difficult to master by the students but
also it is difficult to teach by the teachers. This is because recount text requires
some components to consider, such as; organization which needs all the necessary
background of information that makes sense to the readers, and then, series of
events which needs the activity of the events that is created in systematic order,
the next is re-orientation which needs the conclusion by summarizing the result, or
offering personal comment or opinion concerning the text. Considering to the
importance of recount text for the students to master, it is very important for the
teacher to apply the best way to teach recount text in order to achieve the
objectives stated on the curriculum. In this research, the researcher used guided
writing in the form of guiding questions as a technique because the researcher
believes that by giving them such questions as a guide, then the students follow
the questions while they are writing, they will express the idea in form of writing
easily and their piece of writing will be better organized.
The objective of this research was to know whether there is significant difference
of the students? recount text writing ability in the terms of content, organization,
vocabulary, language used, and mechanic aspects after being taught by using
guiding questions technique.This research was conducted based on the
experimental method. It applied the control group pre test ? post test design
modified from the idea suggested by Setiyadi (2006).This experimental method
deals with two groups; experimental class 1 and experimental class 2. The
samples of the research are the second year students of SMPN 1 Terbanggi Besar
Central Lampung in the year 2009/2010. In determining the experimental class 1
and the experimental class 2, the researcher uses Simple Probability Sampling,
using coin. Since the data is in the form of students? ability in writing recount text,
the data was collected by using two writing tests; pre-test and post-test.
The result of the test shows that there was a significant difference from pre test to
post test after being taught by using Guiding Questions in the experimental class
1. The increase is from 53.9 up to 69.96. The application of the technique also
increases all aspects of writing; content 15.53 up to 19.63, organization 12.9 up to
15.96, vocabulary 11.53up to 15.06, language used 10.9 up to 15.73, and
mechanic 2.65 up to 3.53.The result of the computation shows that the value of
two tailed significance was 0.000. It means that H1 was accepted and H0 was
rejected since 0.00 < 0.05.It proves that the treatments given by the researcher had
better effect of the students? achievement.
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