THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF CREATIVE PRODUCTIVE MODEL ON WRITING EXPLANATION TEXT SKILLS OF STUDENTS OF CLASS VIII SMP N 6 SAWAHLUNTO

Abstract

This research is motivated by the lack of interest of students in writing explanatory texts because these students are not able to distinguish explanatory texts and these students are difficult to determine the structure of explanatory texts. The student is also unable to develop or determine the ideas that will be written into explanatory text. This study aims to examine the students' explanatory text writing skills without and by using the Creative-Productive model and the effect of using the Creative-Productive model on the students' explanatory text writing skills in class VIII SMPN 6 SawahLunto. This type of research is a quantitative study with an experimental method. The design of this study was a posttest only control design. The population in this study, all students of class VIII SMPN 6 SawahLunto, totaling 103 students. The research sample for the control class was 34 students of class VIII 2, the sample for the experimental class of class VIII 1 students. The data in this study were the scores of explanatory text writing skills without using and using the Creative-Productive model. This research can be concluded as follows. First, the skill of writing explanatory texts without using the Creative-Productive model for the control class obtained an average score of 75.24 at the mastery level of 66-75% with Enough (C). Second, the skill of writing explanatory texts using the Creative-Productive model obtained an average score of 79.02 at the mastery level of 76-85% with good qualifications (B). Third, based on the results of the t-test, it can be concluded that there is an effect of using the Creative-Productive model. with tcount ttable (3.00 1.67) on the writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMPN 6 SawahLunto.