THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
(An Experimental Research at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Kedungreja, Cilacap in Academic Year 2014/2015)
A THESIS
Submitted to English Education Department as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for S. Pd Degree
By:
SETIYANINGSIH 1101050036
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Assalamu’alaykum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakatuh
Alhamdulillahirobil’alamin. First of all, the writer would like to thank to Allah SWT,
the Sustainer of live who always gives blessing and mercy so that the thesis entitle “THE
EFFECTIVENESS ROUNDTABLE FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING” for the requirements of S.Pd Degree of English Departmentof Teacher training and Education Faculty Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto could be finished.
I would like to express my greatest and the most gratitude is dedicated to Rina Agustina, S.S. MapplLing. TESOL, as my thesis supervisor who gave me guided, encouragement, support, advice, knowledge, suggestion, and correction for my thesis so that the writer can finish this research. This thesis is nothing without her meaningful guidance.
Then, I would also like to express my gratitude to the family of SMP Negeri 1 Kedungreja. Mr. Sudarna, S. Pd. as the Headmaster of one of Junior High School and Mrs. Erlawati, S.Pd, as the collaborative teacher who have given permission, inspiration, and helped me in conduct the thesis, and all the students in seventh grade Junior High School who have given good participation to conduct the research.
I also fell grateful to the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, Drs. Ahmad, M.Pd., and Dr. H. Syamsuhadi Irsyad,S.H.,M.H., the Rector of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto, who has given the permission to conduct this research.
My gratitude is also dedicated to the head of English Education Department, Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum., who has given his permission to conduct the research, and all of lecturers English Education Department who gave the writer knowledge, motivation, and inspiration.
prayers and support during conducting this research. Finally, with all their love the writer can compliting the thesis.
Hopefully, this thesis can give inspiration, knowledge, and advantages to all readers, particularly those who are interested in teaching and learning English. The writer definitely realizes that this thesis is far from being a perfect one. Therefore, the writer welcomes comments, critiques, and suggestion from all the reader.
Wassalamu’alaykumWarahmatullaahi Wabarakatuh
Purwokerto, 5th August 2015
DEDICATION
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, I want to dedicate this thesis to:
My beloved parents, bapak Seto and Ibu Jasminah, thank you for your endless love, your struggle, love and motivation that makes me realize that I have to be the best for you. I love you so much.
My beloved brothers and sister (Mujiono, Teguh triono, and Kuswanti) thank for your affection, patience, supports, and help me so that I could finish my study in this university.
All of my great partners under Bu Rina’ supervision, thank you for your support.
My bestfriends in Intan Kos Biru (Anisa Lutfiyana, Anisa Lutfiyani, Dewi Pravitasari and Nia Cucu Rahma Putri) thanks for help, smile, joke and love and thank you for always together all the time. All of you have colored my life, Do not forget our friendship and togetherness.
All of my friends in English Department especially class A (Falah, Uus, Ova, Anis, Wewe, Tiara, Sonia, Wina, Arum, Riyang, Pepi, Citra, Meli, Izah, Ayu, Royan, Dadan, Boma, Yuda, Soni) Thank you for everything. Do not forget our togetherness and friendship.
Thank you for special person who has been helped and given support to me (my beloved brother kk)
MOTTO
Actually, with every difficulty there is ease ( Q.S Al-Insyirah :
6)
The best success comes after we get a great
Don’t forge to pray to Allah SWT for your success in the
future
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TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of Research ... 1
5. Problem of Learning Writing ... 10
6. Task of Teacher in Writing ... 11
7. Aspects of Writing ... 12
B. The Nature of Descriptive Text
1. Definition of Descriptive Text ... 16
2. Function of Descriptive Test ... 16
3. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text ... 16
4. Language features of Descriptive Text ... 17
C. The Nature of Roundtable 1. Definition of Roundtable ... 18
2. Teaching Writing Through Roundtable ... 19
3. Advantage and Disadvantages of Roundtable ... 20
D. Relevant Studies on Roundtable ... 21
E. Basic Assumption ... 22
F. Hypothesis ... 23
E. Method for Analyzing Data ... 28
CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION A. Result ... 36
B. T – Test Computation ... 44
C. Discussion ... 46
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
THE LIST OF CHART
Figure 1: Pre-test and Post test result of experimental class...41
Figure 2: Pre-test and Post test result of control class...42
Figure 3: The result of students’ writing of experimental class...45
Figure 4: The result of students’ writing of control class...46
THE LIST OF TABLE
Table 1: Table of Nurgiyantoros’ scoring profile Table 2: Table schedule of the research
Table 3: Table of writing evaluation criteria using scale Table 4: Table model of writing evaluation criteria using score Table 5: T-table form
Table 6: Interreter reliability result for pre-test experimental class Table 7: Interreter reliability result for post-test experimental class Table 8: Interreter reliability result for pre-test control class Table 9: Interreter reliability result for post-test control class Table 10: The Result of t-test for Content
Table 11: The Resultof t-test for Organization Table 12: The Resultof t-test for Vocabulary Table 13: The Resultof t-test for Language Use
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix A : Test
Appendix B : Lesson Plan
Appendix C : Students writing result Appendix D :T-test Score
ABSTRACT
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROUNDTABLE TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
(AnExperimental Research at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Kedungreja in Academic Year 2014/2015)
BY
SETIYANINGSIH 1101050036
The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of Roundtable for teaching descriptive writing at the seventh grades of SMP N 1 Kedungreja in academic Year of 2014/2015. This research was conducted by using stratified random sampling research. The participants of this research were the students of SMP N 1 Kedungreja. There were two groups choosen VII B as the experimental group and VII E as the control group. In collecting data, this research used pre-test and post-test to get the data. The test was in the form of essay test. The t-test formula and interrater were used to analyze the data. Based on the computation, the result of t-test calculating was 4.48 while the t-table value at the level of significance 0.05 for degree of freedom (df) 58 was 1.6715. It means that t-test was higher than t-table ( 4.48 > 1.6715). In conclusion, Roundtable was effective for teaching descriptive writing at the seventh grade students of one Junior High School.
