%0 Generic
%A Ardiningrum, -
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2024
%F eprints:86790
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%T IMPROVING STUDENT’S WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT  THROUGH AN EXPANSION DRILLING TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST    GRADE IN SMA NEGERI 1 BANJAR AGUNG  
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/86790/
%X The research aims to find out whether there is any significant improvement of  students’ writing ability in descriptive text through the Expansion Drilling  Technique. The research was a quantitative approach. The design used in this  research was One group Pre-test and Post-test. While the sample consisted of 30  students in X. 6 of SMA Negeri 1 Banjar Agung. The instrument was a writing test.  The data were in the form of scores taken from the pre-test and post-test. The results  showed that students’ writing score gain was 16.89 from 54.09 in pre-test to 70.98  in post-test. The significance was analyzed by using a Paired Sample t-test. The  result showed that the p-value score was 0.00 which means that there was  significant improvement of students’ writing ability in descriptive text since p-value  <0.05. Therefore, it can be concluded that the Expansion Drilling Technique has  improved students’ writing ability in the first grade of senior high school.    Keywords: expansion drilling technique, writing ability, descriptive text