%A 1513042048 Nikita Putri Mahardika
%T THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE
STUDENTS? DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST GRADE

OF SMAN 14 BANDAR LAMPUNG
%X The objectives of this research were to find out the improvement of students? descriptive text
writing ability because of the implementation of roundtable technique and to investigate the
students? perception toward the technique. The population of this research was the students of
SMAN 14 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research
was X MIA 1 which consisted of 30 students. The research design was one group pretest
posttest. The students were taught by using roundtable technique in three meetings. The data
were taken from tests, and then they were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-test. Moreover,
a questionnaire was used to find out the students? perception toward the implementation of
the technique. The result of the implementation of roundtable technique shows that there was
an significant improvement on students? writing ability (p<0.05, p=0.00). The mean score of
the pretest was 56.93, and the posttest was 73.48. In addition, the students perception toward
the implementation of roundtable technique was positive. The majority of the students agreed
that roundtable technique was an interesting technique which gave benefits for them.
Therefore, this suggests that roundtable technique facilitates the students to improve their
ability in descriptive text writing.
Keywords: writing, writing ability, roundtable techniqu, descriptive text
%D 2019
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%R 1513042048
%I FAKULTAS PENDIDIKAN DAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN
%L eprints59234