THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BASIC QUESTIONING TECHNIQUE TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 SUMBERGEMPOL IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

DESTIN EKA LESTARI, 2813123048 (2016) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BASIC QUESTIONING TECHNIQUE TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 SUMBERGEMPOL IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016. [ Skripsi ]

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ABSTRACT Lestari, Destin Eka. Registered Number Students 2813123048. 2016. The Effectiveness of Basic Questioning Technique toward the Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text at the Seventh Grade Students of SMPN 2 Sumbergempol in Academic Year 2015/2016. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Arina Shofiya, M. Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Basic Questioning Technique,Writing Ability Writing is one of way to express idea, to communicate with other people and to distribute the recent writing experience.The primary goal of writing to communicate is to please the reader in providing new discoveries, information, and perspectives. But many students have difficulties in writing especially descriptive text.Whereas, descriptive text is one kind of genre that has a simple form than other genre. The students’ difficulties in writing are caused by some factors such as, the students’ interest in writing is low because they are not accustomed to write in English and less positive response on writing assignments. As a teacher, it is important to give interesting lesson about writing so the students will not feel boring when the writing activity is in progress. And the teacher should choose the appropriate technique when teaching writing. Based on the problem above, an appropriate technique used in writing especially descriptive text is Basic Questioning Technique. This technique can give a stimulus for the students to get an idea and what they should to write by guiding them using basic questioning before they start to write. The formulation of the research problem is “Is there any significant difference on students’ ability in writing descriptive text before and after being taught by using basic questioning technique”? The purpose of the research problem is to know if there is any significant difference on students’ ability in writing descriptive text before and after taught by using basic questioning technique”. Research method applied in this study included: (1) The research design in this study was pre-experimental design with quantitative approach in the form of one group pre-test post-test. (2) The population of this study was all class of seventh grade at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol, Tulungagung. (3) The sample was VII C class which consist of 31 students. (4) The variable were independent and dependent variable. Independent variable was basic questioning and dependent variable was the students’ writing descriptive text. (5) The research instrument was a test. (6) The data analysis was using Paired sample t-test with SPSS 16.0. The result showed that the students’ mean score before being taught by using basic questioning technique was 49,35 and the students’ mean score after being taught using basic questioning technique was 65,96. In addition, the result of the statistical computation used Paired sample t-test with SPSS 16.0 shown tcount is 14.815 and ttable is 2.042 with degree of fredoom is 30 and significance level is 0.05. Tcount is bigger than ttable (14.815 > 2.042), it concluded that the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, it means there is significant different of students’ achievement in writing ability especially descripptive text before and after being taught by using basic questioning technique. So, this technique was effective use in teaching writing descriptive text. The researcher suggested to English Learners that the application of a technique in writing it can be used. The aim is to facilitate the author in writing an article as in this research. For the teacher,the researcher suggested to use basic questioning technique as one of alternative technique in teaching writing especially in writing descriptive text. And for the next researcher to conduct further research on the similar area but with different aspect or use this research as a refference for the next researcher studies.

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