The Application of Gallery Walk Technique to Students’ Writing Achievement at SMAN 1 Manyak Payed, Aceh Tamiang

Gallery walk technique as an innovative technique to help students writing, especially writing achievement. Gallery walk is presentation technique which individual learners or group to display product with walk around the classroom. The objectives of research were to find out Gallery Walk technique for students writing achievement and to find out students difficulties in writing achievement and solution. The method of research was quantitative research with kinds quasi experimental research using pre- test and post- test design. The researcher took only one class as sample in this research XI IPA2 . The total of sample is 20 students and two English teachers as subject to collect information about students difficulties in writing achievement and to get school data. The data were collected used test. The results of test is mean of Pre- test 60,9 with the highest score was 78 and the lowest score is 50. Then, post-test with mean 79,4 and the highest score is 87 and the lowest score is 75. The researcher used close df at significance level 5%, 0,05. The researcher found students were increasing in writing achievement by using Gallery Walk Technique based on the result of pre-test and post-test. The researcher found that Gallery Walk Technique can be used the in improving students writing achievement.