%0 Generic
%A Siswati Arningtyas, 1413042063
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2019
%F eprints:57982
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%T IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT  USING THINK-TALK-WRITE STRATEGY AT THE FIRST YEAR OF    SMA IT AL-HIDAYAH PRINGSEWU
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/57982/
%X The aim of this research was to find out whether students’ writing increased after they  learnt writing through the use of Think Talk Write strategy and which aspect of writing  increased the most after they learnt writing through Think Talk Write strategy. This  research is quantitative research and the researcher used one group pretest-posttest  design.  The subjects of the researcher were 29 students of X.2 class at SMA IT Al-Hidayah in  2017/2018 academic year. The students were taught about recount text using Think Talk  Write strategy. Writing test was used as the instrument. There were two raters to assess  the students’ writing skills and to collect the data. The writing test is in form of recount  texts. The data were analyzed by using t-test with the significant level p<0.05. The results  of this research that t-value (5.170) was higher than t-table (2.030) and the value of two  tail significance was 0.0000 < 0.05. It means that there is statistically significant  improvement on students’ writing ability in recount text using Think Talk Write strategy.  Therefore, the hypothesis of the research was accepted. Besides, all aspects of writing  were improved regarding to the results. The aspect improved the most was organization,  then followed by language use, content, vocabulary, and mechanic. This suggests that  Think Talk Write strategy can facilitate the students to improve their writing skill.  Keywords: writing, recount text, Think Talk Write strategy