THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES STRATEGY
ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING
NARRATIVE TEXTS
A THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the
Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By:
ANNISA HARDIANTI DAULAY
Registration Number : 2113321002
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all the writer would like to express his highest gratitude to the Almightly Allah SWT for giving blessings and mercy also given time, oppurtunity and health, so that the writer entitled “The Effect of Personal Experiences Strategy on Student’s Achievement in Writing Narrative Text” could be completed. This thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirement for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan at English Department of Language and Arts Faculty, State University of Medan.
During the process of completing this thesis, the writer has worked with a great number of people, through their guidance, suggestions, and comments for which the writer would like to express her sincere gratitude and special thankfulness. The writer would like to express to :
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom M.Pd., Rector of State University of Medan. Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and
Arts State University of Medan and all her staffs.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English Department and my first thesis Advisor.
Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English Department.
Nora Ronita, S.Pd., S.S., M.Hum., the Head of English Education Study Program.
Dra. Rahmah, M.Hum., the Head of English Literature Department. Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., her second Thesis Advisor.
Dra. Sortha Silitonga, M.Pd., Dr., Rahmad Husein, M.Ed., Dr. Anni H.Pulungan, M.Hum. , her Thesis Reviewers
Ahwin, S.Pd., The Headmaster of SMA Negeri 6 Padangsidimpuan for helping the writer to complete this thesis.
Mam Eis Sriwahyuni, M.Pd., the administration staff of English Department, for attention, asistance, and information in completing this thesis.
Her beloved parents (A.Daulay S.Pd and Syarifah Harahap), Thanks for their endless love and has been patiently given their moral and financial, advices, motivations, support, and also her beloved brothers and Sister (Azhari Daulay S.H, Asman Daulay, Aqilah Daulay),
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Her friend at boarding house Eva Nurhafni for cheering the writer on when she wrote this thesis.
Overall, the researcher hopes this thesis can give contribution to the English Education students and further pedagogical research. And also it can be useful for the readers.
Medan, September 2015 The Writer
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Daulay, Annisa Hardianti. 2113321002. The Effect of Personal Experiences Strategy on Student’s Achievement in Writing Narrative Text. A Thesis. English Department. Faculty of Language and Arts. State University of Medan. 2015.
This study attempts to discover the effect of applying Personal Experiences
Strategy on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. It was conducted by
using experimental research design. The population of this research was the tenth (X) grade students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan which consists of 10 parallel classes with the total number of students is 64. The samples of this research were taken by random sampling through lottery technique. The result was class X1 consisted of 32 students became the experimental group and class X2 consisted of 32 students became the control group. The experimental group was taught by Personal Experiences Strategy while the control group was taught by using Big group work strategy. The instrument was used to collect the data was writing narrative text. After the data were analyzed, it was found that the value of t-observed was 4.25 with the degree of freedom (df) = 62 at the level significance 0.05. it means that t-observed was higher than t-table (4.25 > 1.997. The result of this study showed that teaching narrative text by using personal experiences strategy was higher than that by using individual work. It implies that personal experiences strategy is appropriate to be applied for writing narrative text.
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LIST OF TABLES Pages Table 1.1. The percentage of the Tenth Grade students’ score in Writing ... 3
Table 1.2. The percentage of the Tenth Grade students’ score in Writing... 3
Table 2.1. Purpose of Narrative Text...18
Table 2.2. Example of Narrative Text ...19
Table 2.3. Example of Narrative Text. ...21
Table 3.1. Research Design...33
Table 3.2. The Experimental Group...37
Table 3.3. The Control Group...38
Table 3.4. Rubric... 39
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Pages
APPENDIX A. lesson Plan...53
APPENDIX B. The Scores of Pre-Test and Post-Test in Both of Classes (Experimental Group ) ...91
APPENDIX C. The Scores of Pre-Test and Post-Test in Both of Classes ( Control Group ) ...92
APPENDIX D. The Calculation in Experimental Group...93
APPENDIX E. The Calculation in Control Group...95
APPENDIX F. The Calculation of T-Test...97
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusion
Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that teaching writing skill
by writing personal experiences sifnificantly affects on the students’ achievement
in writing narrative text. It can be seen from the data which had obtained in the
post- test of experimental group were: the total score was 2472 and the mean
score was 77.25 , while the data in control group were : the total score was 1869
and the mean score was 69.68. Thus, the students’ score in experimental group
was higher than the students’ score in control group. The calculation of the data in
the testing hypothesis showed that t-observed 4.25 was higher than t-table 1.997,
it means that the alternative hypothesis ( Ha) is acceptable.
B. Suggestions
This study showed that writing personal experiences could improve
students’ achievement in writing narrative text. In relation above, some points are
suggested as follow :
1. Teachers of English at Senior High Schools should be creative in selecting
interesting strategy in teaching learning process. In addition, experience
writing can be used as an alternative strategy of teaching English writing.
It is also important for the teacher to improve the students’ achievement in
writing by giving any assigment or homework , such as writing a
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2. experience, which is guided students to find the main idea and supporting
detail.
3. For the students, they should use experience writing to practice their
writing to make the communicative text and the process of writing become
easier and enjoyable.
4. For the schools, it is expected that they provide the technique needed for
teaching English.
5. It is necessary to another researcher to conduct a further research, in order
to validate the result pf this study.
Finally, the writer considers that this study still need validation from the next
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