THE EFFECT OF USING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Collaborative learning is effective strategy to improve the students’ achievement in writing descriptive Text. It could be proven by various research about the effectiveness of collabrative learning strategy and the research of the writer . This study deals with the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The objective of this research was to find out the effect of collaborative learning to the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The population of this research was second grade students of Junior High School (SMP Swasta Asuhan Jaya) in academic year 2014/2015. The number of population was 60 students from 2 parallel classes which consisted of 30 students of each class. The sample was taken by using total random sampling; meaning that all of them were the sample of this research. VIII-1 were taken as the experimental group was taught by using collaborative learning strategy and VIII-2 as control group was taught by using free writing strategy. The data of this study was collected by using written test. The findings indicated that there was a significant effect of collaborative learning on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The goal of this research is given the significant effect of using collaborative learning on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.