THE EFFECT OF USING PARTIAL DICTATION TECHNIQUE WITII NARRATIVE TEXT ON THB ELEVENTH YEAR STUDENTS' WRITING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN I PRAJEKAN-BOIIDOWOSO IN TIIE 2OIOI2OII ACADE]VtrC YEAR

Abstract

In leaming a foreign language, technique has a very important role, including learning writing because it can improve the effectiveness of leaming and help the students to assimilate ideas in more meaningful and interesting manner. Partial dictation can support the skill of writing especially on writing mechanism, they are: spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Partial dictation has never been applied by the English teacher of SMA Negeri 1 Prajekan. That is why, the writer is interested in conducting this research. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using of Partial Dictation Technique with narrative text on the eleventh students' writing achievement at SMAN I Prajekan-Bondowoso in the 201012011 Academmic Year. The research respondent were determined by cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents were 73 students; 37 students belong to class XI IPA I as experimental group that taught by partial dictation on their writing class and 36 students belong to class XI IPA 2 as control goup that taught by lecturing method. The primary data of this research were collected from the sfudents' scores of writing tesf while the supporting data were gained through interview and documentation. The primary data were collected from the post test to make comparison between the two groups after giving treatment and analyzed by using Independent Sample t-test on SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Science). Based on the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher than the mean score of the control group. It was 81,486 for experimental group and76,458 for the control goup. The value of sig. column is 0.000 and this value is lower than 0.05. It means that there was an effect of using partial dictation with narrative text on the eleventh students' writing achievement at SMAN 1 Prajekan- Bondowoso. Thus, the alternative hypothesis "there is significant effect of using partial dictation technique with narrative text on the eleventh year students' writing achievement at SMAN I Prajekan-Bondowoso inthe2010/2011 academic year" was accepted. The research result proved that there was a significant effect of using partial dictation technique with narrative text on the eleventh year students' writing achievement at SMAN I hajekan-Bondowoso in fte 2010/201 I academic year.