?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=1413042028&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=THE+IMPLEMENTATION+OF+ROUNDTABLE+DISCUSSION+TECHNIQUE+IN+IMPROVING+STUDENT%E2%80%99S+WRITING+OF+DESCRIPTIVE+TEXT+AT+THE+FIRST+YEAR+OF+SMAN+9+BANDAR+LAMPUNG&rft.creator=Hasty+Putri+Utami%2C+1413042028&rft.subject=LB+Theory+and+practice+of+education&rft.subject=PE+English&rft.description=ABSTRACT%0D%0A%0D%0ATHE+IMPLEMENTATION+OF+ROUNDTABLE+DISCUSSION+TECHNIQUE+IN+IMPROVING+STUDENTS%E2%80%99+WRITING+OF+DESCRIPTIVE+TEXT+AT+FIRST+GRADE+OF+SMAN+9+BANDAR+LAMPUNG%0D%0ABy%0D%0AHasty+Putri+Utami%0D%0A%0D%0AWriting+is+one+of+the+productive+skills+students+of+senior+high+school+need+to+master.+It+is+because+writing+skill+has+significances+in+improving+a+communicative+competence+of+learning+the+language.++However%2C+the+capability+of+students%E2%80%99+writing+ability+is+regarded+as+being+low.+This+could+be+due+to+an+appropriate+technique+of+English+teacher+used.+The+roundtable+discussion+technique+is+one+of+the+techniques+that+can+be+used+to+contribute+in+improving+students%E2%80%99+writing+ability.+%0D%0A%0D%0AThis+research+was+a+quantitative+research.+The+aim+of+this+quantitative+research+was+to+find+out+the+improvement+of+students%E2%80%99+descriptive+writing+ability+after+the+implementation+of+roundtable+technique+in+teaching+descriptive+writing.+The+writing+tests+to+collect+the+forms+of+descriptive+text+were+used+to+collect+the+data.+The+subjects+of+this+study+were+29+students+of+the+first+grade+of+SMAN+9+Bandar+Lampung+in+academic+year+2017%2F2018.+The+current+research+employed+the+pretest+and+the+posttest+design.+The+tests+were+given+to+see+how+far+the+students+improve+their+descriptive+writing+ability+after+the+treatment.+The+data+were+analyzed+using+SPSS+version+17.0.+%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+result+showed+that+there+was+statistically+significant+improvement+of+the+students%E2%80%99+writing+ability+after+the+implementation+of+roundtable+discussion+technique+with+the+significant+level+0.05.+This+suggests+that+roundtable+discussion+technique+facilitates+the+students+to+improve+their+writing+ability.+Therefore+the+hypothesis+of+the+research+which+stated+that+there+is+positive+effect+of+roundtable+discussion+technique+in+improving+students%E2%80%99+writing+ability+was+accepted.+The+mean+score+of+pretest+was+63.83+and+the+mean+score+of+posttest+was+74.21.+It+means+that+the+students%E2%80%99+mean+score+improved+about+10.38.+Form+each+aspect+of+writing%2C+the+aspect+that+improve+the+most+was+content+from+19.13+to+22.96+which+means+the+score+improved+about+3.83+or+36%25.+Based+on+the+findings%2C+it+can+be+concluded+that+roundtable+discussion+technique+can+improve+students%E2%80%99+writing+ability.+And%2C+the+aspect+of+writing+which+improve+the+most+was+content.%0D%0A%0D%0AKeywords%3A+aspect+of+writing%2C+writing%2C+roundtable+discussion+technique%0D%0A%E2%80%83%0D%0A&rft.publisher=Fakultas+Keguruan+dan+Ilmu+Pendidikan&rft.date=2018-05-11&rft.type=Skripsi&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F31515%2F1%2F1.%2520ABSTRAK.pdf&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F31515%2F15%2F2.%2520SKRIPSI%2520FULL.pdf&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F31515%2F16%2F3.%2520SKRIPSI%2520FULL%2520TANPA%2520BAB%2520PEMBAHASAN.pdf&rft.identifier=++Hasty+Putri+Utami%2C+1413042028++(2018)+THE+IMPLEMENTATION+OF+ROUNDTABLE+DISCUSSION+TECHNIQUE+IN+IMPROVING+STUDENT%E2%80%99S+WRITING+OF+DESCRIPTIVE+TEXT+AT+THE+FIRST+YEAR+OF+SMAN+9+BANDAR+LAMPUNG.++Fakultas+Keguruan+dan+Ilmu+Pendidikan%2C+Universitas+Lampung.+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F31515%2F