Author (Penulis)

ELLA YULITA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0065

Abstract

Abstract Ella Yulita: The Effect of Project Based Learning to The Student’s Writing Ability of The Tenth Grade at SMAN 1 Pace, Thesis, English Education Department, The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Nusantara PGRI Kediri, 2015. Key words: Writing, Project Based Learning, Procedure Text This research is conducted because of a tendency which scattered that writing is considered as the most difficult and complex skill to learn. Therefore, it needs an appropriate method to teach writing, one of them is Project Based Learning. By using this method, the students are given opportunity to work with team, share their ideas to each member group and produced the final product. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of Project Based Learning as the method that can help students of the tenth grade at SMAN 1 Pace Nganjuk to have better writing ability in procedure text, in terms of content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. In holding this research, the researcher employed the pre-experimental research and one-group pretest-posttest design. The sample of this study was all the 36 students at the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Pace in academic year 2015/2016. This research was held in six meetings involved pre-test, first treatment until forth treatment, and post-test. To test the students’ ability in writing procedure text, the researcher asked the students to write a procedure text based on the topic given. To analyze the data, the researcher used t-test computation. After doing the research, the researcher found that mean of pre test was 60 and mean of post test was 80. it can be stated that the mean of pre test is lower than the mean of post test, and the stastitical data in the research result data showed that t-score (20.833) > t-table 5% (2.028) or 1% (2.719). Therefore, it is indicated that the Null Hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis was accepted. In other words, there is any effect of the students taught used Project Based Learning, they have better ability in writing procedure text than those taught by Non- Project Based Learning in the term of content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. It can be concluded that Project Based Learning is an effective method to teach writing procedure text because it developed significantly the students’ ability in writing procedure text. Therefore, it is suggested that English teacher should use Project Based Learning as the appropriate method to be applied in teaching writing procedure text. For the other researchers are expected to be able to conduct a better research about Project Based Learning method to find out its effectiveness in teaching other skills and other genres of text.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-10

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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