Puspa Dewi Ayu Kurniyasari , 2201411023 (2016) The Effectiveness of Journalist Questions Technique to Improve Students’ Writing Skill in Narrative Text (An Experimental Study at Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 19 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2014/2015). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is an experimental research that aims to investigate the effectiveness of journalist questions technique to improve students’ writing skill in narrative text. The subjects of the study were the eighth grade students of SMP N 19 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2014/2015. There were two groups that were given different treatments. The experimental group was taught by using Journalist Questions technique,and the second group was taught without Journalist Questions technique. There were four meetings for each class. One meeting was for pre-test. Two meetings were for treatments and one meeting was for post-test. Before the treatment was conducted, try out was given for the other class to know the validity and reliability of the instrument. Next, pre-test was given for both experimental and control groups. Post-test was given after the treatments were done. The result of this research showed that the average score of the pre-test in the experimental group was 54,78 and the post-test was 66,42. The improvement on the experimental group was 11,64. While, on the control group, the average score of the pre-test was 53.69 and the post-test was 60.48. The improvement on the control group was 6,73. The means of both groups increase in the post-test but the mean of the post-test in the experimental group was higher than the control group. The result of applying t-test based on the difference of two means showed that the t-test value of the difference mean between experimental and control group (ʹǡͲͺ͵) was higher than t-table (1.998) for ߙ = 5% (2.00). It means that there is significant difference mean between experimental and control group. Based on the result above, Journalist Questions technique could be an appropriate technique in teaching written narrative text because it is about six questions that can stimulate the students to cover the content of the story. However, should give the explanation about those six key questions correctly. Then, for the next researchers, they can conduct further research in Journalist Questions technique.

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