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%T TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING THROUGH COOPERATIVE
LEARNING BY USING ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST YEAR
OF SMA XAVERIUS PRINGSEWU
%X Writing is the most complex skill for the students at the first year of SMA
Xaverius Pringsewu. This is true since in writing, the students have to consider
many writing aspects, such as content, organization, language use, vocabulary and
mechanics; content is referring to the substance of writing, organization is
concerning with the logical organization of the content, language use is focusing
on the use of correct grammatical, vocabulary is dealing with the selection of
words in the content and mechanics is referring to the use of graphic conventions
of the language. The students mostly complain that they do not know how to
express their ideas into words and they also have difficulty in how to compose
sentences. As a result, the students have no motivation to write, and it makes
writing becomes boring and hard activity for them. Meanwhile, roundtable
technique is one of cooperative learning model in where the students work in
groups and sit around the table. The most convenient aspect is that students can
cooperate through some procedures such as writing, editing, and rewriting that can
help them overcome their writing difficulties.
Dealing with the problems, this research aims to see whether roundtable technique
can be applied to increase the students? writing ability in descriptive text at the
first year of SMA Xaverius Pringsewu. This research was a quantitative research
and the design was one-group pretest-posttest. It was conducted in five meetings
in Class X.3 of SMA Xaverius Pringsewu from September 30
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up to October 14
2011. The instruments used to collect the data here were writing pretest and
posttest. In the pretest, they were asked to write descriptive text of one member of
their family. And, in the posttest, they had to write a descriptive text of their
favorite actors or actress. In order to obtain a valid score, inter-rater and intra-rater
reliability was used in this research.
The result of the tests shows that there is an increase from the mean of pretest to
posttest after being taught through roundtable technique. The students? average
score increases from 63.55 to 72.77. The use of this technique also increases five
aspects of writing; content increases from 3.69 up to 4.13, organization 2.86 up to
3.52, language use 2.91 up to 3.22, vocabulary 3.05 up to 3.38, and mechanics
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3.36 up to 3.91. The result of the hypothesis testing through SPSS Version 15
shows that t-ratio (14.110) is much higher than the t?table (2.021)with the
significance < ?. (0.000 < 0.05), it means t-ratio > t-table. In other words, the
hypothesis is accepted. Referring to the result of the research above, it can be
concluded that roundtable technique can increase students? writing ability in
descriptive text.
%D 2012
%L eprints9408