Rizqi Amalia , 2201407042 (2011) Improving Students’ Ability in Writing News Item Text Using Old and New Information (An Experimental Research for the Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 1 Slawi in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

School-based curriculum of English (KTSP) for SMA/MA states that one of the goal of learning English in SMA is developing students‟ competence to communicate in English both orally and written. It refers to the competence in mastering genre, understanding and producing some kinds of text. One of them is news item text. In the real condition, many students have difficulties in producing this text. One of the difficulties is whether their writings are coherent or not. They usually create ineffective sentences and there is no logical semantic relation between the sentences. The objectives of this research are to describe the writing test achievement for the students taught using old and new information, to describe the writing test achievement for the students taught jumbled sentences, and to investigate whether there is any significant difference in students‟ writing test achievement between the students taught using old and new information and those who were taught by using jumbled sentences. This study was an experimental research. The subjects of the research were 60 students of the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Slawi in the academic year of 2010/2011. They were divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. They were given three types of activities: pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The treatment for control group was jumbled sentences, and for the experimental group used old and new information. The data were collected through a writing test. According to the computation, the average score of the experimental group and the control group in the pre-test were 56 and 56.7. The result of the post-test from the experimental group was 72.7 which was higher than the result of the control group that was 69.6. Further, the t-Test result of the difference score between post-test and pre-test was 2.207. It was higher than t-table (1.67). This implies that there was a significant difference in the achievement between the groups or it can be said that the experimental group was better than the control group. So that, the writer concludes that the old and new information is more effective than jumbled sentences. Old and new information makes the students‟ writing more coherent and well organized. It is suggested for English teachers to apply this old and new information method in teaching writing news item text.

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