THE EFFECT OF BOARD GAMES TO STUDENTS\' WRITING ABILITY OF ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMAN 1 MOJO KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
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AULIA DYAH ANGGRAINI IRAWANUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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14.1.01.08.0075Abstract
This study aimed to answer the formulation of the problems which are to know the students' writing ability before and after being taught using board game at SMAN 1 MOJO and investigate is there any significant effect of using board game to students' writing ability at SMAN 1 MOJO. The writer uses pre-experimental quantitative design, namely one group pre-test post-test design. The subject of this research was 33 students that consist of 12 males and 21 females of XI MIPA 4 class of SMAN 1 MOJO in academic year 2018/2019. From the calculation of paired t-test, the result of this study shown the total score that was gotten by the students is increasing after they were being taught using Board Game in which total of post-test (2324) was higher than pre-test (2034). Therefore, this study showed that Board game has significant effect on students’ writing ability of SMAN 1 MOJO Kediri. It caused the result showed that t-score 13,322 with the significant (2-tailed) value is lower than 0.01, it means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Thus, the writer suggests for the teacher to give the students a fun teaching and learning activity. It can make them better in grasp the material. For the next researcher, it is suggested to investigate the effect of Board game on the other material and indicators of writing. Also manage the better time to make this game more effective.
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