THE EFFECT OF GIVING REVISION AND EDITING PROCESS ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 1 TEMPEH-LUMAJANG IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

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SUMMARY The Effect of Giving Revision and Editing Process on the Eighth Grade Students’ Writing Achievement at SMPN 1 Tempeh-Lumajang in the 2012/2013 Academic Year;KhairunNisa’, 080210491059; 2013:39 pages; English Language Education Study Program of Language and Arts Education Department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University. Many students faced difficulties in learning English, especially in writing. Considering the difficulty that the students had, the researcher decided to find a way to solve this problem. One of the techniques that could be used was giving revision and editing process on students’ writing. This technique can support the writing skill in aspects of content, grammar, vocabulary, organization, and mechanics. Giving revision and editing process has never applied by the English teacher of SMPN 1 Tempeh. That is why; the researcher is interested in conducting this research. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of Giving Revision and Editing Process on the Eighth Grade Students’ Writing Achievement at SMPN 1 Tempeh in the 2012/2013 academic year. The population of this research was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tempeh in the 2012/2013 Academic Year. The research respondents were determined by analyzing the students’ scores of homogeneity test by using ANOVA formula. Based on the result of ANOVA, the population of the research was heterogeneous, so that two classes that had the closest mean score were chosen as the respondents of the research. The number of the respondents was 64 students, consisting of 32 students of grade VIII G as the experimental group taught writing by giving revision and editing process, and 32 students of VIII F as the control group taught writing by using conventional technique. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of writing test and observation, while the supporting data was gained through documentation. The primary data were collected from the post -test to make viii comparison between the two groups after giving treatment and analyzed by using Independent Sample t-Test on SPSS