THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INQUIRY LEARNING METHOD (ILM) TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ACHIEVEMENT AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMPN 01 NGANTRU

RIADHOTUL KUSNAH, 2813123129 (2016) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INQUIRY LEARNING METHOD (ILM) TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ACHIEVEMENT AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMPN 01 NGANTRU. [ Skripsi ]

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ABSTRACT Kusnah, Riadhotul. Student Registered Number. 2813123129. 2016. The Effectiveness of Using Inquiry Learning Method in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text Toward Students’ Writing Achievement at The First Grade of SMPN 01 Ngantru. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tuluangagung. Advisor : Dr. Arina Shofiya, M.Pd. Keywords : Effectiveness, Inquiry Learning Method, Writing, Descriptive text Inquiry Learning Method is one of Contextual Teaching and Learning methods. In Inquiry learning method, the students learn how to make writing descriptive text well and correctly by self-learning. Inquiry is a learning method which has the meaning question, identification, observation in English. Teachers use the model of Inquiry Learning Method in SMPN 01 Ngantru. Students have given Inquiry Learning Method in other material not in writing class. Students have given about the writing descriptive text material but they still feel difficult to understand how to make the cohesion and coherent of the text. Because the way or method of convey the information or explaining about topic is not effective. The researcher formulated the research problems was: “Is there any significant difference of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method ?” Based on the research problems above, objective of the study was : to find out whether there is any significant difference of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method at first year student of SMPN 01 NGANTRU. Research Method : 1) the research design in this study was pre-experimental design with one group pre and post test from quantitative approach. 2) the population of this study was all first year students at SMPN 01 Ngantru which the total of VII class are 294 students, 3) the sample was taken from one class from the first students of SMPN 01 Ngantru, in X C, there are 32 students consist of 18 males and 14 females, 4) the research instrument was test, 5) the data analysis uses t test (statistic application SPSS 20.) The result showed that the students mean pretest score was 63.3, and the means posttest score was 76.3. After analyzed by using paired sample t-test, it showed that T-count was 6.60, whereas T-table with significant level 5% and df = 31 was 2.021. So, T-count was greater than T-table. This means that Ha which states that There is a significant difference of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method at SMPN 01 Ngantru was accepted. Whereas, Ho which states There is no significant different of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method at SMPN 01 Ngantru was rejected. Based on the result of this study, Inquiry method can be used as an alternative strategy to teach writing especially in descriptive text for students at SMP level. The result of this research also proved that Inquiry Learning Method was effective to increase students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The effect of Inquiry Learning Method was also could be seen from the quantity of the words which significantly increased in post-test. Thus, it concluded that using Inquiry Learning Method was effective towards students’ writing achievement and it suggested to be used in teaching writing descriptive text, especially in the seventh grade of SMPN 01 Ngantru. The researcher suggests for students to manage their study time so they can more understand what the content of material and expected can help the students more understand the material by self discovery. Second, for the teachers to apply Inquiry Learning Method for teaching English.

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