THE EFFECT OF FIELD TRIP METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study aims at investigating the effect of field trip method on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the tenth (X) grade students of SMAN 1 Tanjung Pura. The samples were two classes, XI MIA-2and XI MIA-3 which consist of 30 students in each class. The experimental group was taught by using field trip method while control group was taught by using group discussion. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula, the analysis showed that the score of students in the experimental group was greater than the score of students in the control group at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58; the t-observed is 3.67 while the t-table is 2.00. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and this implies that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted.