THE COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY
IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING INDIVIDUAL
LEARNING AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AT THE TENTH
GRADE STUDENTS OF MAN 1 CIREBON
ADI RAHMAT B.P: “The Comparative Study Between the Students’ Ability in
Writing Descriptive Text by Using Individual Learning
And Collaborative Learning at the Tenth Grade Students
of MAN 1 Cirebon”
As we know that language is the part of our life. Language cannot be
separated with our life, because language is the system of human communication
which consists of the structured arrangement of sounds (or their written
representation) into larger units, e.g. morphemes, words, sentences, utterances.
Writing is a difficult skill for many learners, even in their mother tongue. There are
several reasons for this. First, writing has to be learnt, unlike speech, which is
acquired in the mother tongue as a part of child’s normal development. In addition,
speaking is a familiar everyday activity, but for many people writing is something
they do only rarely. To develop the students’ ability in writing, descriptive text was
chosen as the text that students should make. To help students in writing descriptive
text, the writer will apply two kinds of methods. Those are individual learning and
collaborative learning. Those methods are effective for writing skill, because the
students can feel relax to write descriptive text by using individual learning that
makes the students to think freely as they need in writing and collaborative learning
makes the students to work together in a small group to get more data and to write
easier.
The aims of the research are to get data about the students’ ability in
writing descriptive text by using individual learning, to get data about the students’
ability in writing descriptive text by using collaborative learning, and to get data
about what the comparison between the students’ ability in writing descriptive text by
using individual learning and collaborative learning is.
The method of the research is quantitative method. It means that the
researcher does the research by using the formula of statistic, especially by using ttest
formula. The techniques of collecting the data are by using observation,
interview, and test.
The population of the research is that the writer takes the tenth grade as
the sample and the writer has taken 20 % (twenty percent) of the population in the
other hand, the twenty percent of 471 comes to 90 students.
The analysis of the test shows that the average mark of writing descriptive
text by using individual learning (X1 variable) is 7 and the average mark of writing
descriptive text by using collaborative learning (X2 variable) is 6.8. From the result
both of them can be categorized is good. Meanwhile, based on the calculation, the
score of ttest = 7.69 and significant of 5% and dF (n-2), while n is 90. So, the result of
ttest is 7.69 > ttable 1.99. It means that there is positive and significant comparison
between the students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using individual learning
and collaborative learning
