Journal of English Education and Linguistics: JEELi
Abstract
The purpose of this study’s to determine whether there’s an influence in the collaborative writing strategy on the students of writing descriptive text for class X SMK Swasta Umum Sentosa in the academic year 2022/2023. This type of research is a quantitative research with a research design of two groups, pre-test and post-test. The population in this research is all class X which consist of two classes. The research sample consisted of two classes (class Xth AK 1 and Xth AP) which were taken in a random. In class Xth AP as an Experimental class using a collaborative writing and class Xth AK 1 as a control class using conventional learning. After the learning was given, the post-test was obtained with an average result of 80,94 for the experimental class and 54,0 for the control class. The result of the t-test obtained t’count = 19,4> t-table = 0,067811, then Ha is accepted, this obtained there is an influence on student learning outcomes using a collaborative writing on the result of students writing ability of descriptive text for class Xth SMK Swasta Umum Sentosa.Keywords: Effect, Collaborative Writing strategy, Descriptive Tex