IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL BY USING FAMILY AND HOMETOWN DESCRIPTION AT THE EIGHT CLASS STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Fitriyanti Latief, 2013 “Improving The Students’ Writing Skill By Using
Family and Hometown Description At The Eighth Year of SMP Negeri
3 Palopo”. (under thesupervision of (I) Wisran, S.S., M.Pd. (II) Jufriadi,
S.S., M.Pd.)
Key Word : Writing Skill, Family and Hometown Deskription
This thesis deals with effort to improve the students’ writing skill. The purpose
of this thesis is found out whether Family and Hometown deskription is effective in
improving students’ writing skill at the eight of SMP Negeri 3 Palopo.
This research applied pre-experimental research with pre-test and post-test
design. This research was conducted at the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 3
Palopo in 2012/2013 academic year. The number of population were 74 students and
the researcher took 36 students as samples by using the purposive sampling
technique. The researcher used writing test, as instruments of the data collection. The
data analyzed by finding mean score, standard deviation, and test significance.
Having analyzed the data, it was found out that teacing by using family and
hometown description technique improved the students’ writing skill of SMP Negeri
3 Palopo. There was significance different between the results of pre-test and post�test, in which the post-test was higher than the pre-test, where the mean score of pre�test was 50,4 and post-test was 64,7. From t-test value 20,35 was greater than t-table
2,023 or 20,35 > 2,023. It means that the students’ writing skill was improved by
using family and hometown description at the eighth year of SMP Negeri 3 Palopo in
2012/2013 academic year.