THE EFFECT OF USING MODELING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of using Modeling Technique on
students achivement in writing descriptive paragraph. This study was an experimental design.
The population of this study was all the students of grade XI of SMA HARAPAN MEKAR
MEDAN with the total number of the students was 280 students, 42 students were taken as
the sample by using clustering sampling. The students were divided into two groups, namely
experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught by using Modeling
Technique while the control group was taught without using Modeling Technique . The
instrument used in this study was interview test. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The
result of the analysis revealed that t-observed is higher than t-table (5.50 > 1,684) at the level
of significance 0,05 with the degree of freedom (df) = N – 2 = 40. It means that there is a
significant effect of using Modeling Technique on the students’ descriptive paragraph
achivement