The Effect of List-Group-Label Strategy in Improving Writing Skill for the Elevenrth Grade Students at SMK Negeri 1 Karang Baru

This final project focused on the research of List Group Label Strategy inteaching writingreport text. The objectives of this study were(1) To know the effect of List-Group-Label strategy in improving student writing skill in class XI SMK Negeri 1 Karang Baru; (2) To find out the achievement of students who are taught by using List-Group-Label strategy in writing report text.In this study, the population was the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Karang Baru in the academic year of 2016/2017. The number of the population is392 students which were classified into 10 classes. The writer chose XI APT.1 as experimental group and XI APT.4 as control group.The writer used experimental research with quantitative research measurement to find the mean. The experimental group was given a treatment by using List Group Label Strategy, and thecontrol group was given a treatment by using Direct Instruction. After givingtreatments, the two groups were given post-testThe result of study, tvalue = 10,36. meanwhile ttable = 1,686 thusobtained tvalue>ttableis10.36>1.686atsignificance levelα=0.05,Haaccepted.It can be concludedthat increasedunderstanding ofthe studentson writing. Report textby using theList Group Label StrategyinclassXI APT.1inSMKNegeri 1 Karang Baruin academic year 2016/2017 was high. It means that there was significant difference in the achievement of students between those who were taught by using List Group Label Strategy and by using Direct Instruction in writingreport text. It can be seen thatthere was significant difference in the achievement of students between those whoare taught by using List Group Label Strategy(experimental group) and by using t tableDirect Instruction (control group) in writingreport text. The writer offerred somesuggestions. For the teacher, the teacher should give variations in teaching, especially using List Group Label Strategy in teaching writingreport text. For thestudents, the students should practice a lot of writing English texts in order toincrease their knowledge.