%0 Generic
%A HATIKA NESIA,  1313042039
%C  UNIVERSITY OF LAMPUNG
%D 2017
%F eprints:26560
%I FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
%T THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COLLABORATIVE TECHNIQUE IN  IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/26560/
%X Writing is considered as one of difficulty language skills to be mastered. This  stands to reason for it consists of content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and  mechanic. Thus, consequently, it is very difficult for the students to understand in  writing. Commonly, they find difficulty in expressing the ideas into good  paragraph. It is the reason why the researcher utilized a collaborative technique in  teaching writing descriptive texts.  The aims of this study are to find out whether there is a defference of students’  writing ability in descriptive paragraph after implementation of a collaborative  technique at the second year of SMP N 19 Bandar Lampung and to find out what  aspects of writing would improve the most after the students are taught by using  collaborative technique. This research was a quantitative research which utilized  one group pretest posttest design. The sample of this research was VIII E at SMP  N 19 Bandar Lampung. The writing test was administrated as the instrument of  this research. The data were analyzed by using repeated measure t-test in which  the significance was determined by p<0.05.  The result showed that the students’ mean score in the pretest was 59.32 while the  posttest mean score was 73.30. Then, it showed that there was a statistically  significant difference between the students’ writing ability in the pre test and the  post test with significant level 0.05. Furthermore, content is the aspect that  improves the most among the other aspects. So, the hypothesis proposed in this  research was accepted. On the whole, it can be said that collaborative technique  can be used to improve the students’ writing ability. Besides, collaborative gives  oppurtunities for students to share and develop the ideas more easily.