THE EFFECT OF GUIDED QUESTIONS METHOD IN WRITING SKILL AT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 4 KERTOSONO ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
Author (Penulis)
Lurika Kusumaning Utami
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
12.1.01.08.0114
Abstract
ABSTRAK
Writing is form of written communication to express feeling that must be mastered because writing is used to communicate with other people around the world. A written communication used to express persons’ idea to the reader. Moreover, in writing, learners can express their ideas, emotions, opinion, and they can get many vocabularies in learning writing. Then there are some problems that appear when teaching writing learning process, such as; the students do not know how to explore their idea, minim vocabularies, confused about the structure and difficult arrange the sentences. One of the method can be used by the teacher is guided questions method to solve the problem. This research is the effect of guided questions method in writing skill at second grade students of SMPN 4 Kertosono academic year 2016/2017.This research uses quantitative method especially uses pre-experiment-design in the form of one group pretest – posttest design. The subjects of this research is the second grade students at SMPN 4 Kertosono and the sample uses a class and consist of 32 students. The data analysis was done by test. The result of test was analyzed by using SPSS version 17.0.The researcher concludes that this research will be useful in the teaching writing for the purpose of improving the students English achievement and the researcher also hope that this research can be useful to the teachers, students and the readers. The researcher suggestion for English teacher should give motivation to the students in teaching writing and also they may have some creative teaching in learning writing so that the students do not bored.
Keywords: Writing Skill, Guided Questions