Improving Students’ Writing Descriptive Text By Using Spidergram Technique At Seventh Grade Of SMP YABES Medan
Keywords:
Writing, Descriptive text, Spidergram techniqueAbstract
This research was aimed to improve the students' skill in writing descriptive text by using spidergram technique and find out if there was the significant improvement of the students' skill in writing descriptive text. The sample of this study was the seventh grade students of SMP Yabes School Medan which consist of 20 students in academic year 2023/2024. This research was done by two cycles. Each cycle consist of 4 steps, namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.The result of data analysis showed that there was improvement of the students' skill in writing descriptive text in each cycle. The mean of students' score in pre test was 56,5, in post test I was 72,2 and post test II was 82,3. In pre test there was 10 % or 2 of 20 students who passed the standard minimum score achievement. In post test I, there was 35 % or 7 of 20 students who passed the standard minimum score achievement. The improvement from pre test and post test I was 27,78 %. Meanwhile, in post test II, there was 82,3% or 17 of 20 students who passed the standard minimum score. The improvement from post test I and post test II were 45,66% Based on the data, it is concluded that the students' skill in writing descriptive text by using spidergram technique was improved. It indicates that using spidergram technique can improve the students' skill in writing descriptive text.
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