Author (Penulis)

MELIN SUSANTI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0127

Abstract

Writing is the process of expresing ideas by create or producted a writen form to communicate with the readers. Writing has been considered as an important skill in learning a language. However, writing also known as a difficult skill for the learners of language. The students were difficult to explore their ideas and they have limited vocabularies. It was caused their difficulties in writing. In order to solve the students’ problem, the researcher offers a solution to teach writing by using Discovery Learning method. The purposes of this research were (1) to know the students’ writing ability before and after being taught by using discovery learning, (2) to find the effect of using discovery learning in teaching writing at the tenth grade students of smpn 1 grogolkediri academic year 2015/2016. The research technique of this study was experimental research. The population of the research was tenth grade students of SMPN 1 Grogol and the sample was 8-G which consist of 36 students. In collected the data, the researcher used pre-test, treatments, and post-test by writing in form of essay. The result of the research shows that the total score of post-test (2642) was higher than pre-test (2488). It means that the students’ score increased. Furthermore, from calculation of t-table and t-test, it can be seen that t-test was 2,880, so that the t-table was 2,704 at the level of significance of 1% and 2,021 at the level of significance of 5%. Therefore, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. From the result the researcher concluded that discovery learning gave significant effect to the student’s writing ability. After being taught by using Discovery Learning, the students became more easier in develop their ideas.It can be seen from their writen test which the contents, structure, and their vocabularies were better than their pre-test. Based on the result of this research, researcher suggested that the teacher should be able to choose the best waywhen taught the students byDiscovery Learning method, especially in step of Discovery Learning,the teacher must did easy way when implementated step of Discovery Learning, so the students will be interest to understanding the material and follow the teaching learning process.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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