THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING HORTATORY.

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THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE

TEACHING ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN

WRITING HORTATORY

A THESIS

Submitted to the English Department, Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement

for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

Fatin Nadifa Tarigan

Reg. No. 2102121007

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.1 Editing Checklist ... 20

Table 3.1 Research Design ... 23

Table 3.2 Teaching Procedures in Experimental Group ... 25

Table 3.3 Teaching Procedures in Control Group ... 27

Table 3.4 Rubric Assessment for Writing Hortatory Exposition Text ... 29

Table 3.5 The Level of Students’ Evaluation ... 30

Table 4.1 The Result of Pre Test and Post Test of Experimental Group ... 35

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix A. The result of Pre Test in Experimental Group ... 45

Appendix B. The result of Post Test in Experimental Group ... 47

Appendix C. The Calculation of T-test ... 49

Appendix D. The Calculation of the T-observed ... 53

Appendix E. Percentage Points of The T Distribution ... 54

Appendix F. Writing Test ... 55

Appendix G. Lesson Plan ... 56

Appendix H. Pre Test ... 89

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

Based on the result of research, there was a significance difference in the

achievement between the students who were taught through Communicative

Language Teaching and the students who were taught without Communicative

Language Teaching. After applying Communicative Language Teaching

approach, it was known that t-observed value 3.855, with the degree of freedom

(df) 34 is higher than the value of t-table 2.120 at the level of significance of 0.05

of two tailed test. It can be concluded that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is

accepted. It means that Communicative Language Teaching significantly affects

the students’ achievement in writing hortatory.

B. Suggestion

This study showed that using of Communicative Language Teaching could

improve students’ achievement in writing hortatory text. Some suggestions are

pointed out for :

1. English teachers to use Communicative Language Teaching approach in

teaching writing. CLT approach practices the students to identify

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2. Students to use Communicative Language Teaching in observing and

researching the teaching learning process. The activities of this approach

can make teaching learning process more enjoyable and communicative.

3. Other researchers to conduct further researches of Communicative

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