%0 Generic
%A NURIASIH, 1513042013
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2019
%F eprints:57833
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%T IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING IN RECOUNT TEXT  THROUGH THE USE OF GUIDING QUESTIONS  AT SMAN 1 SEPUTIH MATARAM
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/57833/
%X The aims of this research are to find out whether students’ writing in the post  increases after they learn writing through guiding question technique and to find  out which of aspect of students’ writing in post test increases the most after they  learn writing through guiding questions technique. The subject of the research  were 36 students of X MIA 3 class at SMA Negeri 1 Seputih Mataram in  2018/2019 academic year. In this research, the researcher administered five  meetings. The beginning of the meeting, the researcher conducted the pretest to  find out the students initial ability in writing a recount text. Next, the researcher  had three times meetings of the treatments. At the end of the meeting, the  researcher conducted the posttest to find out the students’ writing ability after  being taught by using guiding questions technique. The result of the students’  writing test was measured in terms of content, organization, vocabulary, language  use, and mechanic. The data were analysed by using Paired Sample t-test in which  the significance was determined by sign <0.05.  The result of the research shows that students’ writing in the post is higher than  the pretest after they learn writing through guiding questions technique. It can be  seen from the mean score of the pretest which was 63.81 and the posttest’s mean  was 72.26.The score increases about 8.46. also, the increase includes all aspects of  writing, namely language use (3), vocabulary (2.39), content (1.68), organization  (0.81), and mechanic (0.58).  The result of the computation shows that the value of two tailed significance is  0.000. It means H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected since 0.000 < 0.05. It proves  that through the use of guiding questions technique in writing a recount text,  students’ score in the posttest is higher than the pretest.  Keywords: writing, recount text, guiding questions technique.