THE EFFECT OF APPLYING ROUND ROBIN WRITING STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS` ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study was aimed at finding out the effect of applying Round Robin Writing strategy on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. This study used the experimental design. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Swasta MUSDA Medan. There were seventy four students as the sample of the research. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Round Robin Writing Strategy while control group was taught without using Round Robin Writing Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shows that t-observed (4,871) is higher than t-table (1,994) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 72. It means that applying Round Robin Writing Strategy has significantly affected on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.