Author (Penulis)

PUSPITA MEGA SELVIA
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0153

Abstract

Students of Junior High School are expected to be able to create many kinds of functional and monologue text that consist of grammatical sentences, acceptable expressions, and culturally acceptable in English culture. In fact, they still encounter difficulties when they are asked to create a text or passage which is indicated by: having lack of vocabulary, getting difficulties to start writing, not organizing the writing well, not able to make grammatical correct sentence, and not able to arrange well-punctuated, spelled, and capitalized sentences. This study aims to find out the effect of teaching writing recount text using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) on students’ writing ability at the eighth grade of SMPN 8 Kediri in the academic year 2014-2015. This research used quantitative approach and was implemented to class VIII-A of SMPN 8 Kediri. The data was collected using pre-test and post-test while t-test was used to analyze the data. The result shows that t-observed is 7,02 at the degree of freedom of 14, t-table is 2,977 at the level of significance of 1%. It means that t-observed (7,02) > t –tabel at the level of significance of 1%. Finally, it can be concluded that teaching writing recount text using Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) has very significant effect on the students’ writing ability. Therefore, it is recommended to be used by English teachers as one of techniques that can be implemented to make students feel easy to write. Keywords: CIRC, Teaching Writing, Writing Ability

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PUBLISHED

2015-12-28

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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