LARAS APRILIA, 1042011021 (2016) THE EFFECT OF USING CUBING TECHNIQUE ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT TENTH GRADE OF SMKN 1 LANGSA. Skripsi thesis, INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI COT KALA LANGSA.
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Abstract
Name: Laras Aprillia / Date of birth: Langsa, April 4 th of 1993. Reg. Number: 1042011021. Title of Thesis: “The Effect of Using Cubing Technique on the Students’ Achievement in Writing Descriptive Paragraph at Tenth Grade of SMKN 1 Langsa”. This research studied about the teaching writing descriptive paragraph using cubing technique. Cubing technique is a technique that encourages the writer to explore different aspect of topic. The importance of cubing technique is to help students‟ critical thinking, generate ideas and more active. Moreover, This research purpose is to identify the effectiveness of using cubing to improve the students‟ achievement in writing skill and to know the implementation of cubing technique in teaching learning process. The design of this study is an Experimental Method with two groups‟ Pre-Test and Post-test design. The object of this study were students of SMK Negeri 1 Langsa which is located on Jl. Syiah Kuala, Lr. Petua Luwi, Kp. Tualang Tengoh. The research was conducted in January 2016. It was conducted at two classes. Each class consisted of 35 students. Furthermore, the writer also used cluster random sampling to determine the sample in this research. Then, the writer used quantitative method because the writer considered students‟ score in learning and test to collect the data. To collect quantitative data, the researcher conducted test before and after the research implementation. To analyze the quantitative data, the research used the mean scores of the test. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The research shows that the value of t-observed is higher than the value of t-table 3,46 > 2,00 (α= 0,05) with the degree of freedom (df) = 68. It means that there is significant effect of using cubing technique on students‟ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The using of cubing technique in teaching descriptive paragraph writing in the classroom enables the students‟ to write systematically and guided to write the paragraph of description, to gather all the information about the subject, process the information they have in mind and develop it into good writing. The students who were taught by using cubing technique have a higher achievement than the students who were taught with free-writing technique. In other words, the cubing technique gives significant effect to the students‟ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph as they become more systematic in writing the paragraph. The research findings are described in line with the problem statements as follows: cubing technique improve the students‟ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph, especially on the aspect of content, organization of ideas, and language features which is proved by the significant improvement of the mean score of the post-test control group and post-test experimental group. As the result, there is no missing stage from 11 pre-writing to post-writing. Moreover, during the teaching learning process by using cubing technique, the students looked enthusiast and active while the teacher implemented the technique. They were also actively involved in the teaching learning process. Based on the explanation above, the researcher concluded that the cubing technique improved the students‟ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers use cubing as the technique in teaching writing.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Skripsi) |
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| Additional Information: | Pembimbing I: Cut Intan Meutia, MA Pembimbing II: Rita Mahriza, MS |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CUBING TECHNIQUE, WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH |
| Subjects: | Bahasa Inggris > Writing in English |
| Divisions: | Fak. Tarbiyah & Ilmu Keguruan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | mrs Editor Pustaka |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2018 04:14 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2018 04:14 |
| URI: | http://digilib.iainlangsa.ac.id/id/eprint/1172 |
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