THE EFFECT OF GUIDED WRITING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study is an attempt to discover the effect of applying Guided Writing
Strategy on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by
using experimental research design. The Population of this research was the
eighth (VIII) grade students of SMP Tri Sakti Lubuk Pakam which has three
parallel classes. The samples of this research were taken by through lottery. They
were class VIII 3 became the experimental group and class VIII 2 became the
control group. The experimental group was taught by using Guided Writing
Strategy while the control group without treatment. The instrument for collecting
the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The
result shows that the value of t-observed is higher than the value of t-table. (5.56 >
1.67 (α = 0.05)) with the degree of freedom (df) = 70. It means that there is a
significant effect of applying Guided Writing Strategy on students’ achievement
in writing descriptive text. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted