Ulfa Safitri Rizkiani , 2201413059 (2019) THE USE OF JIGSAW TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (An Experimental Research of the Eighth Year of SMP N 2 Batang in the Academic Year 2017/2018). Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Writing is one of the important skills in English. It is the most complicated skill that must be developed by language students.Therefore, in teaching writing teachers should have a creative way in order to make students learn writing easily. This final project is concerned with the implementation of Jigsaw Technique in teaching writing of descriptive text. The aim of this study was to find out whether Jigsaw Technique can improve the students‘ ability in writing descriptive text. This study used a quasi-experimental design in the form of pre-test and post-test control group design. The subjects of this study were the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Batang in the academic year of 2016/2017. The data collection techniques used interview as preliminary study, tests and questionnaire. Having analysed the data, it was found out that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group was 59.55, while the control group was 58.66. The mean score of post-test in experimental group was 70.00, while the control one is 62.77. It showed significant improvement of both group students‘ achievement in writing skill. The calculation of t-test post-test showed that Sig. (2-tailed) was 0.003 and t-test was 7.22. It indicated that there were significant differences between control and experimental groups in the post-test. Moreover, from the observation result, there were only some students in the experimental group who taught using Jigsaw Technique got difficulties in writing descriptive text and most students were interested in learning process. Meanwhile, many students in the control group who taught using conventional method got difficulties and most students were not interested in the learning process. It can be concluded that Jigsaw technique can improve the students‘ ability in writing descriptive text

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