THE EFFECT OF TAI (TEAM ASSISTED INDIVIDUALIZATION) COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT MTS. ASHRI JEMBER IN THE 2013/2014ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

The result of this research showed that there was a significant effect of using TAI technique on the eighth gradestudents’ writing achievement. It was proven by the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS Software was 0.007. It was lower than 0.05. It means that there is statistically different between the experimental and the control groups dealing with students’ writing achievement. Finally, the findings led to the conclusion that TAI learning method has a significant effect on the eighth grade students’ writing achievement at MTs.Ashri Jember in the 2013/2014 academic year. Since using TAI learning technique gave the significant effect for eighth grade students on their writing achievement, this learning technique can be used as a consideration to improve other students’ ability in mastering English not only in writing but also in other language skills such as reading, speaking and listening. Thus, the researcher expects that this thesis also useful for English teacher (to enrich his/her teaching techniques so that the class would be boring), students (to increase their motivation in improving their writing achievement), and the other researcher (to conduct further research dealing with the similar topic by using different language skills and components but might be in different research design, for instance in improving grammar skill by using TAI or improving reading skill by using TAI and so on).