THE INFLUENCE OF USING GUIDED QUESTIONS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs N 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

KHOTI, ISNAENI (2021) THE INFLUENCE OF USING GUIDED QUESTIONS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs N 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF USING GUIDED QUESTIONS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF MTs N 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021 One of the most important skills in English is writing. It is often considered as the most difficult skill by the students. This problem was also faced by the students of the eighth grade of MTsN 2 Bandar Lampung. Based on the preliminary research, the students‟ score of writing of the eighth grade of MTsN 2 Bandar Lampung are low. Most of them, 73 %, got score under the criteria of minimum mastery (KKM), 75. Some techniques were needed by teacher to overcome that problem. One of the techniques is Guided Questions. Guided questions is a technique that is used in teaching writing by giving guidance and helping the students in order to find out what they should do or write. The objective of this research is to know whether there is significant influence of using Guided Questions towards students‟ descriptive text writing ability at the first semester of the eighth grade of MTsN 2 Bandar Lampu in the academic year of 2020/2021 or not. The design of this research was quasi experimental design. The population of this research was the students of regular class of MTsN 2 Bandar Lampung at the eighth grade. The writer chose the sample randomly by using cluster random sampling technique. The researcher used Guided Questions in Experimental class as a treatment and lecturing technique in control class. In collecting the data, the writer used instrument in written form. The instrument was used for pre test and post test. The researcher did the pre test to find out the students‟ descriptive text writing ability before conducting the treatment and did the post test to find out the students descriptive text writing ability after conducting the treatments. Before analyzing the data, the writer did test for normality and homogeneity to know whether the data had normal distribution and the variance of the data was homogenous or not. The result of the data had normal distribution and the variance of the data had homogenous. Therefore, to analyze the data, the writer used independent sample ttest. After giving the post test, the writer analyzed the data by using independent sample t-test. It was found out that result of Sig (Pvalue) = 0.004< α = 0.05. It means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. To sum up, the use of Guided Questions toward students‟ descriptive text writing ability had significant influence. The conclusion of this research is Guided Questions is effective to be used toward students‟ descriptive text writing ability. Keywords:Guided Questions, Descriptive Text, Quasi Experimental, Students’ Writing Ability

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