THE COMPARISON BETWEEN INTROVERT AND EXTROVERTSTUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF STATE ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL RENGAT INDRAGIRI HULU REGENCY

Abstract

The purpose of this research were to find out the significant difference on students’ writing ability between introvert and extrovert students and to know the level of writing ability of introvert and extrovert. The population of the research was the eleventh grade students of nature science State Islamic Senior High School Rengat consist of 51 Students. They were given a questionnaire about type of personality, based on the result of questionnaire, writer took 20 introvert and 20 extrovert students to be sample of the research. Then, 40 students (20 introvert and 20 extrovert) were asked to write a report paragraph. Their writing was assessed by two rater based on rubric from Jacob (1981). The mean score of introvert students’ writing ability were 73,12, it is categorized to good level. While the mean score of extrovert students’ writing ability were 64, it is categorized to enough level. The mean score of their writing were analyzed with Independent Sample T-test formula calculated by using SPSS 22 version. Then, the result of independent sample t-test found that sig (2-tailed) was 0.034 (0.034<0.05) means that statistically significant difference. The null hyphotesis was rejected while the alternatif hyphotesis was accepted. In conclusion, there is a significant difference on students’ writing ability between introvert and extrovert students, the result showed that introvert students outperformed than extrovert students in writing ability. Keywords: Comparison, Introvert, Extrovert, Writing Abilit