THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GUIDING QUESTIONS TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHT GRADE SMP NEGERI 2 MUARA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

Abstract

This study about the effectiveness of using guiding questions towards the student ability in writing descriptive text at the eight grade SMP Negeri 2 Muara. The objective of the study is to find out whether the use of guiding questions significantly affects on the students ability in writing descriptive text. This study was conducted by using quasi eksperimental. The technique used for collecting data is writing test. The total of the students were 32 students. and they were divided into two groups: they are experimental group and control group,in which each groups consists of 16 students. The writer took all of them as the sample of this study. experimental method was applied in this research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The results of the statistical analysis of t-test at the level significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) = N-1, and N=15 indicated the there was a significant difference between the mean score post-test Experimental group and post-test Control group. The mean score post-test of Experimental group was 85, 62 and the mean score post-test of the control was 62,31, the mean score pre-test of experimental 60,56 and the mean score of the control was 58,18 Ttabel<Ttest (1,753<2,30) in the other words, the application of guiding question effect on student ability in writing descriptive text at the eight grade SMP Negeri 2 Muara in academic year 2021/2022.Therefore, Nol hypothesis (Ho) in this study it was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted where there was a significant effect of using guding questions towards the student ability in writing descriptive text.