THE EFFECT OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS ON STUDENTS\' WRITING ABILITY AT SMK PAWYATAN DAHA 1 KEDIRI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
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RIRIS SUSANTIUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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14.1.01.08.0047Abstract
Getting ideas, organizing and developing those ideas into a unity and coherent text become problems that cause most of students cannot produce their own text maximally. Moreover, the students should notice the aspects of writing, such as; content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics Graphic Organizers can be used as one of strategies to solve the students’ problems in writing. Thus, the students are able to create their own writing well. Graphic Organizers are visual template which can help the students to stimulate, organize and develop their ideas concerning with the topic of writing easily. Therefore, the aim of this research is to find out the effect of Graphic Organizers on students’ writing ability at SMK Pawyatan Daha 1 Kediri in the Academic Year 2018/2019. This research was quantitative research used one-group pretest-posttest pre-experimental design. The population of this research was 400 students of the tenth grade students while the sample of this research is 43 students of AKL (accounting) 1 class. The research data was analyzed by using Paired-Sample T-test. The result of data analysis shows that the mean score of post-test (76.564) is higher than pre-test (35.6410) and t-test (29.403) > t-table (2,021). Thus, the Ha is accepted and the Ho is rejected. Moreover, it shows that the significant value (0,00) < (0,05) 5% significant degree. Hence, it can be concluded that using Graphic Organizers in teaching writing gives significant effect towards the students’ writing ability. It enhances the students’ ability in the aspect of organization, language use, content and vocabulary significantly. The aspect of mechanics also increased but it is lower than the other aspects.
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