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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