The Effect of Using Three-Step-Interview on the Seventh Grade Students’ Descriptive Paragraph Writing Achievement at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember;

Abstract

This research focused on writing. It was conducted at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan that the English teacher did not use certain technique in teaching writing. She taught by lecturing and gave task directly after explaining. In addition, writing is a complex activity because all language components are covered simultaneously. Accordingly, Three-Step-Interview was used as a technique in teaching writing given to the experimental class. By using Three- Step-Interview, the students could enrich the ideas then written in their descriptive paragraph writing. This quasi experimental research was conducted to know whether there is a significant effect of using Three-Step-Interview on the Seventh Grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember or not. The respondents of this research were the Seventh Grade students of SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember that the numbers were 129 students. By using One Way Anova formula of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) in analyzing the students’ previous writing English scores from the English teacher, it was known that the population of the Seventh Grade students at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember was homogenous. Therefore, the samples could be taken randomly. Class VII C and VII D were chosen as experimental and control classes. By lottery, class VII D was chosen as experimental class that there were 32 students and VII C was chosen as control class that there were 34 students. After determining the samples, the treatment was given to both classes. The researcher taught writing by using Three-Step-Interview technique, and the control class taught writing by lecturing. The posttest was given to the respondents after giving treatment that before the researcher conducted Try out test to the class of the Seventh Grade which did not belong to the respondents. xiii The writing test results were scored by different scorers that are the researcher and the English teacher to obtain the reliability. The students’ posttest results were analyzed statistically by using independent sample t-test formula of SPSS with 5% significant level. Based on the result of independent sample t-test formula of SPSS, the mean score of posttest at experimental class was 70.25 and at control class was was 61.88. Then, in t-test column, it could be seen that the value of significant on the column of Lavene’s test was 0.235. The value of significant 0.235 was higher than 0.05. Accordingly, the row showing Equal Variances Assumed must be read for analyzing the data. It can be seen that the sig. (2-tailed) value was 0.017. It was lower than 0.05 (significant level 5% of confident interval 95%). Therefore, it could be said that there was a statistically different between the experimental and the control classes. Consequently, the null hypothesis (H0) that was “There is no significant effect of using Three-Step- Interview on the Seventh Grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember” was rejected and the alternate hypothesis (Ha) that was “There is a significant effect of using Three-Step- Interview on the Seventh Grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at SMP Ma’arif 08 Wuluhan Jember” was accepted.