THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SOMATIC AUDITORY VISUAL
INTELLECTUAL (SAVI) METHOD ON
STUDENTS’
ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING REPORT TEXT
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan
By :
HARNOI ASRIN LUMBAN GAOL
REG. NO. 2101121023
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all, the writer would like to express his deepest gratitude to Almighty God, Jesus Christ for His amazing grace, uncountable blessing, loves, opportunity and strength given to the writer during his study and in completing this thesis which entitled: The effect of applying Somatic Auditory Visual
Intellectual (SAVI) method on students’ achievement in writing report text. This
thesis is aimed to fulfill one of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan of the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan (UNIMED).
In completing this thesis, the writer realized that he faced some problems and he had received the academic guidance, suggestions, and comments and got a lot of assistance and moral support from many people. Therefore, the writer would like to express his gratitude and special thanks to:
Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., as the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., as the Dean of Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., as the Head of English Department, Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., as the Head of English Education Study Program, who took the role of being his reviewer and examiner.
Drs. Lidiman Sahat Martua Sinaga, M.Hum., as his Thesis Consultant, who has given his valuable advice, guidance and spent his precious time in the process of completing this thesis.
Drs. Elia Masa Ginting, M.Hum., as his Academic Advisor, who has supported his throughout the academic years.
Dr. Rahmad Hussein, M.Ed., as his reviewer and examiner, who has given his precious time, suggestions, and comments.
All the Lecturers of English Department who have taught, guided, and advised his throughout the academic years.
Drs. Saut Maratur Silaban, M.Pd., as his motivator, who has given his inspiration, guidance and everything to the writer.
Fr. Fransiscus Linus, CMM, S.Pd., as the Headmaster of SMA Swasta Bintang Timur Balige, for his permission and opportunities in allowing the writer to do observation and to collect data.
Riana Saragih, S.Pd., as the English teacher of SMA Swasta Bintang Timur Balige, for the assistance, guidance, suggestions and comments in the process of completing this thesis. And all the teachers and students at the school for the good cooperation.
His beloved parents, Suhardi Lumban Gaol and Marline Lumban Toruan, his lovely brothers, Junaidi Lumban Gaol and Sanjaya Lumban Gaol, his grandparents (Op. Bornok) and all his families for their endless love, pray, inspiration, motivation, mental and everything that they have given to the writer.
His friends in Reguler Dik. C’ 2010, as his great class for the love and togetherness throughout four years; his friends in PPLT SMA Swasta Bintang Timur 1 Balige 2013 for many experiencies and togetherness.
His family in UKMKP, the coordination of UKMKP UP FBS 2012 (Meni, Duma, Arta, Indah, Isabella, Evi, and Lea), Stempel Small Group (Ernawaty, Herbiana, Oktavia, Kronica, Enricho, and Chandra), and Sindanc Small Group (Devi, Farida, Siska, Nove, Moris, Magda and Risma).
ABSTRACT
Gaol, Harnoi Asrin Lumban. 2101121023. The Effect of Applying Somatic Auditory Visual Intellectual (SAVI) Method on Students’ Achievement in Writing Report Text. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2014.
This study deals with the effect of applying Somatic Auditory Visual Intellectual (SAVI) method on students’ achievement in writing report text. The objective of the study is to find out whether SAVI method significantly affects the students’ achievement in writing report text or not. This study was conducted by using experimental design. The population of the study was the students of grade XI of SMA Swasta Bintang Timur 1 Balige in the academic year 2013/2014, where there were 4 classes of XI Science (IA) and there were two classes were selected as the sample by applying random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups. The Experimental group (XI.IA 3) was taught by applying SAVI method, while the control group (XI.IA 2) was taught by applying conventional method. The data of the study were obtained from the students’ score of writing test. To determine the reliability of the test, the writer used Pearson Moment Product formula. Based on the data calculation showed that the coefficient of reliability of the test was 0.96. It showed that the test was reliable and the reliability was high. There were two data used in this study. They were pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by applying t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the result of the study showed that t-observed (5.091) was higher than t-table (1.990)
(t-observed ˃ t-table) at the level of significance of α = 0.05 and at the degree of
freedom (df) = 82. It can be concluded that applying SAVI method significantly
affects on the students’ achievement in writing report text or in other words the
hypothesis is accepted.
LIST OF TABLES
Page
Table 1.1 The Students’ Writing Score ... 4
Table 2.1 The example of Report Text ... 26
Table 3.1 Research Design ... 44
Table 3.2 Number of Population ... 45
Table 3.3 Number of Sample ... 46
Table 3.4 The Scales of Score ... 52
LIST OF APPENDIXES
Page APPENDIX A. Teaching Procedures in Experimental Group and
Control Group ... 71
APPENDIX B. The Description of Pre-test and Post-test of Experimental Group and Control Group ... 76
APPENDIX C. The Calculation of T-Test ... 78
APPENDIX D. The Reliability of the Test ... 83
APPENDIX E. Percentage Points of the T Distribution ... 85
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
Human beings use language as medium of communication in order to
establish social relation because through language people can express feelings,
attitudes, ideas, wishes and desires by using the system of sounds and words.
Fulwiler (2002 : 26) states that language is used all the time for many reasons.
People use it to meet, greet, and persuade people; to ask and answer questions; to
pose and solve problems; to argue, explain, explore, and discover; to assert,
proclaim, profess, and defend; to express anger, frustration, doubt, and
uncertainty; and to find friendship and declare love. In other words, language is
used to conduct much of the business and pleasure of daily life.
English is one of the languages that is used internationally and it is a
medium of interaction and communication among people from different parts of
the world. It is very important to be learned in order to improve social relation
and knowledge. In the globalization era, English has the stronger position because
it is used in every aspect of life such as in science, technology, education,
communication, politic, economic, arts and so on. Almost all nations use English
as their means of communication, including Indonesia. In Indonesia, English as an
international language has been taught from the kindergarten level up to university
level. It is realized that studying English is not easy for Indonesian students
because English and Indonesian language are different in terms of spelling, sound
English has become a part of the Indonesian curriculum which is called
Education Unit Curriculum or Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP).
Based on this curriculum, learning English is emphasized on four language skills.
They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In learning process, the
students are expected to master these four language skills because these skills are
very necessary to build students’ achievement in English. Harmer (2004 : 31)
states that writing as one of the four skills has always formed part of the syllabus
in the teaching of English, where mastering the ability to write effectively is seen
as a key objective for learners.
Writing is one of the four language skills that should be mastered because it
is one of the forms of communication, and also as the representation of language
in a textual medium through the use of a set signs or symbols thus the others can
response and give the feedback. Sharples (1999 : 3) states that writing is a peculiar
activity, both easy and difficult. The more it is considered about how it done, the
more difficult it becomes. Nevertheless, many students state that mastering
writing skill is not easy, it is frequently presumed as the most difficult skill to
master among the four language skills. It has become a common thing among
students, where students are less enthusiastic in mastering this skill.
There are many kinds of texts that should be learned by the students of
Senior High School in learning the writing skill. In grade eleven of Senior High
School, the basic competence that should be achieved in learning writing skill is
text and essay in the form of report text, narrative text, spoof, analytical and
hortatory exposition.
Based on the explanation above, report text is one of genre that must be
mastered by students in learning English. Theoritically, report text is a kind of text
which has social function to describe the way things are, with the reference to a
range of natural, man made, and social phenomena in our environment. In order to
encourage students to write report text clearly, students need to be able to write
the ideas of a text, vocabulary, word choice, and grammatical pattern.
Based on the experiences of some preliminary researchers, the students
faced some difficulties in writing and their achievement in writing skill is quite
low such as writing sentence, paragraph, report text, narrative text, spoof,
descriptive text, recount text, and so on. It can be concluded that there are about
70% students of Senior High School that still has problems in writing especially
in writing report text.
Based on the observation in grade eleven of SMA Swasta Bintang Timur 1
Balige, the writer found the data of writing test from the first and the second
semesters in academic year 2012/2013 through interviewing the English teacher
Riana Saragih, S.Pd. She said that many students could not pass the Minimal
Completeness Criterion (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal) namely 75 which is
applied in the school for English subject. The data can be seen as follows :
Table. 1.1 The Students’ Writing Score
Semester Score Students Percentage
1st Semester 2012/2013 <75 21 55%
≥75 19 45%
2nd Semester 2012/2013 <75 24 60%
From the data above, it can be concluded that the students’ achievement in
writing is still low.
Based on the writer’s experience and observation in Integrated Teaching
Practice Program (PPLT) in 2013 in Senior High School, the writer found that
students were struggling in writing report text. Although, the theory of report text
was explained in several times, some of the them were really hard to understand
the content and they showed uninteresting feeling in teaching and learning
process. When the writer observed the eleventh grade of Senior High School, He
found that there were about 70% students got problems in writing skill.
The writer concludes that there are several factors that make students have
many problems in writing skill. The students are lack of vocabulary, structure,
technique, literature, and ideas, even some of them have some ideas on their mind
but they did not know how to express them in writing. Then, students seldom
practice to write, even in their native language. And then the students are still
confusing to start writing, how to write sistematically and how to organize their
ideas. Moreover, the method that the teacher used to teach writing is not motivate
and encourage them and most of the teacher taught the writing theory focus on
grammar.
Responding to these problems and by considering the importance of writing
skill for students at Senior High School, it is necessary to find the approach or
method that will be the solution of this situation. When the writer read some
able to overcome the difficulty of students’ writing achievement, it is named
Somatic Auditory Visual Intellectual (SAVI) Method.
Sapti and Suparwati (2011 : 358) state that in order to increase motivation,
attention, comprehension and student achievement, teachers can use SAVI
method. The element of this learning involves the whole activity. Somatic
movement related to activity or act. This means learning to move and act.
Auditory related to activities of speaking and listening. Visual activity related to
observing and describing. Intellectual activities related to the thinking that is by
solving problems and thinking.
Learning English writing skill can be optimal if the four elements of SAVI
are in one event, it means that the elements can not be separated one each other,
because these elements are complementary. In SAVI method, students can express
their ideas and their opinion that can enhance their creativity, because this method
emphasizes the benefits that learning must exert all senses owned by learners and
also it contains modern cognitive science which states that the best learning is to
involve the emotions, the whole body, and all the senses. So the students can
participate more actively in growing their knowledge in learning process.
Based on the explanation above, it is essential to use a suitable and effective
method to help the students to solve the difficulty of the students’ writing
achievement especially in writing report text. Therefore, this study is designed and
conducted to identify the effect of applying SAVI method on students’
B. The Problem of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the problem of the study is
formulated as the following :
“Does the application of Somatic Auditory Visual Intellectual (SAVI)
method significantly affect on the students’ achievement in writing report text?”
C. The Objective of the Study
In line with this problem, the objective of the study is to identify the effect
of applying SAVI method on students’ achievement in writing report text.
D. The Scope of the Study
There are many genres of writing. They are, narrative, descriptive, recount,
persuasive, procedure, anecdote, expository, and many types other. This study is
basically limited to writing report text. This study focuses on identifying the effect
of applying SAVI method on students’ achievement in writing report text.
E. The Significance of the Study
The Findings of the study are expected to be useful for :
1. The students to improve their writing achievement especially in
writing report text
2. The teachers to improve their ability to conduct a better and an
interesting method in teaching writing, especially in teaching writing
3. The readers to update their information or knowledge about how to
improve writing skill and as a reference for those who are interested in
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