THE EFFECT OF USING BREAKING HABITS OF SEEING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT SMPN 2 TEMBILAHAN

Based on the writer’s preliminary research, it was found that the students could not express their ideas in writing descriptive paragraph at school. The problem could be seen that some of the students could not write descriptive paragraph by using language features. So. The writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem. The research was administered at SMPN 2 Tembilahan. The subject of the research was the second year students at State junior High School 2 Temblahan and the object of this research was the effect of using breaking habits of seeing strategy toward students’ writing ability. The desaign of this research was quasi- experimental design. The population of this research was the second year students. The total number of population was 200 students. The writer used two classes as sample that consisted of 40 students The writer used cluster sampling as a technique of taking sample and finally the writer got two classes as sample of this research. They are class VIII 8 as a experimental class that consist of 20 students and VIII 9 as a control class that consist of 20 students. To analyze the data, the writer adopted Independent sample T-test formula by using SPSS 17.0 version. After analyzing the data, the writer found that tobservedWas higher than ttable. The degree of freedom from the data was 38, that is 2.00 ≤ 6.053 ≥ 2.65. Thus, Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and Altenative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. So, there is a significant effect of using Breaking Habits of seeing strategy toward students’ ability in writing a descriptive paragraph at junior high school 2 Tembilahan