THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATURAL APPROACH IN TEACHING WRITING SKILL AT THE ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS OF MAN PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Selpika Sibiti,2010 “ The effectiveness of Natural Approach in Teaching Writing
Skill at the Eleventh Year Students of MAN Palopo” ( Under the supervision of (I)
Madehang S.Ag.M.Pd., (II) Masruddin S.S.,M.Hum.
Key Word: Effectiveness, Natural Approach, teaching Writing Skill at MAN
Palopo.
This thesis studies about The Effectiveness of Natural Approach in Teaching
Writing Skill at the eleventh year students of MAN Palopo in 2010/2011 Academic
year. The problem statement of this research were “ (1) is Natural Approach
effective in teaching writing skill at the eleventh year students of MAN Palopo in
2010/2011 Academic year? (2) how are the students perception in learning writing
skill through natural approach?”. The objective of this research is to find out whether
natural approach is effective in teaching writing skill of the eleventh year students of
MAN Palopo in 2010/2011 Academic year.
The researcher applied Experimental Method in one-group pre test-post test
design. The population of this research is the eleventh year students of MAN Palopo
in 2010/2011 academic year, and it consist ofsixth class. The exact class consist of
98 students and the social class consist of 73 students. Total of population are 171
students. In this research the researcher used random sampling technique and the
number of sample was 15% from all of population. So the sample of this research
was 25 students. The instruments of this research were writing test and
questionnaire.
The result of this research shows that natural approach is effective in
teaching writing skill at the eleventh year students of MAN Palopo after given the
treatment by applying Natural Approach. The result of ttest (10,0045) is bigger than
ttable (2,06).
It means that Natural Approach is effective in teaching writing skill namely
content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and mechanic at the eleventh year
students of MAN Palopo in 2010/2011 academic year.