THE EFFECT OF SENTENCE COMBINING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT.

This study was an attempt to discover the effect of applying Sentence Combining
Technique on Students’ Achievement in Writing Recount Text. It was conducted
by using experimental research design. The population of this research were the
eighth (VIII) grade students of SMP Budi Satrya which consisted of four parallel
classes with the total number of sampling through lottery technique was 120
students’. The result was class VIII-1 consisted of 30 students became the
experimental group and class VIII-3 consisted of 30 students became the control
group. The experimental group was taught by using Sentence Combining
Technique while the control group was taught by using Complete Sentence
Technique. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data was
analyzed by using t-test formula. The result showed that the value of t-observed
(2.75) was higher than the value of t-table (2.004) ( α = 0.05 ) with the degree of
freedom (df) = 58. It means that there was a significant effect of applying
Sentence Combining Technique on the students’ achievement in writing Recount
texts. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted