Muhammad Yudi Nugroho, 2201410144 (2015) THE USE OF MAKE UP THE STORY PUZZLE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Experimental Study of Year Eight Students of SMP N 3 Batang in Academic Year of 2014/2015. Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

The final project is about the use of Make up the Story Puzzle in improving students’ mastery of writing recount text. The objectives of the study are to describe how Make up the Story Puzzle can be applied in teaching learning process in improving year eight students’ mastery of writing recount text, and find out whether or not Make up the Story Puzzle gives significant improvements in students’ mastery of writing recount text. The subject of the study is year eight students of SMP N 3 Batang. The researcher took VIII F class as control group, which consists of 32 students and VIII G class as experimental group, which consists of 30 students. In collecting primary data from students, the researcher used pretest, posttest, questionnaire, and observation sheet. First, the researcher gave pretest to students. It was conducted at the beginning of the study. Then, the intended treatment was given for each group. Posttest was conducted after that. The last, the students got a questionnaire. The result of the study indicates that the used of Make up the Story Puzzle improves students’ mastery of writing recount text. Average scores of students’ pretest is 66.5 for experimental group and 65.03 for control group. Average scores of students posttest is 81.2 for experimental group and 72.44 for control group. Result of gain test shows that student of experimental group made better improvement (0.44) than students of control group (0.22). Last, t-test result indicates that there is significance differences in students achievement between experimental group and control group, t-value is 4.291, higher than t-table 2.000, which means the experimental hypotheses (H1) is accepted.

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