Abstract
The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of eclectic method to improve students’ writing skill at the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Keruak, focusing on (1) Is eclectic method effective in writing skill at the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Keruak in the academic year 2016-2017? and (2) How is the effectiveness of the eclectic method to improve students’ writing skill at the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Keruak in the academic year 2016-2017?. The design of this research was a pre-experimental pre-test and post-test research. It means this research only applied the eclectic method to the experimental group that consisted of 36 students. The sample of the study was taken by using cluster random sampling technique. In gaining pre-test and post-test data, the students required to do the individual task in writing the monolog text of recount based on the material that was learnt before. Then the pretest and post-test data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Paired Sample t-test to test the hypothesis. Having collected and calculated the data by using descriptive statistics, it was found out that descriptive statistic results showed that the mean score of the pre-test was 7.21 while the mean of the post-test was 9.25. The result of hypothesis testing by using Paired-Sample t-test was t(27) = 11.68 at p = .000. It was lower than .05 so it means that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other word that the use of eclectic method was significantly effective in writing skill to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Keruak in the academic year 2016-2017.
Highlights
Language is defined as anything which can be written, spoken, shown or otherwise communicated among people
The steps began by calculating the mean score of the pre-test and post-test by using SPSS Statistic 17 for Windows
The data of pre-test and post-test was gained from the experimental group by using eclectic method which consisted of 36 students and the score interval that were used to determine students’ writing skill was
Summary
Language is defined as anything which can be written, spoken, shown or otherwise communicated among people. The ability of communication in a complete sense[2] is the capability in case of discourse competence in understanding or producing oral or written text which are produced through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The English subject is directed to develop those four language skills to provide the graduate of the students who are able to communicate in English beside gaining the discourse competence at a certain level of literacy. The stated competency standard for eight class of junior high school writing part, is to express the meaning in written functional text in the form of short functional text of descriptive and recount monolog text to interact for the sake of environmental interaction. The importance role of English is due to one of the main necessities in learning English subject is the development of the four basic skills of language, which are listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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