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

The objective of the study is to discover the effect of applying Discussion Strategy on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text at SMA Abdi Negara Binjai. The study was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this study was 7 classes of the tenth grade students of SMA Abdi Negara Binjai. The samples were taken by using random technique through lottery and two out of 7 classes were taken into samples, X-1 as experimental group and X-3 as control group, each class has 30 students. In the treatment, the experimental group was taught by applying Discussion Strategy, the control group was taught by applying Conventional Strategy. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of t0 (3,561) with the degree of freedom (df) = 58 at the level of significance p (0,05) = 2,004. It means that t0 was considerably higher than tt (3,561 > 2,004). The result of this study showed Discussion Strategy had a significant effect on students’ writing achievement. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted