Using Guided Writing Strategy Strategy in Teaching Descriptive Writing to the Tenth Grade Students

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the tenth grade students’ descriptive text writing who were taught by using Guided Writing Strategy Strategy and those who were not, and to find out whether or not there were significant differences on the tenth grade students’ descriptive writing in excellent, good, average and poor categories by using Guided Writing Strategy Strategy at SMA Muhammadiyah 6 Palembang. The population of this study consisted of 132 students of SMA Muhammadiyah 6 Palembang in the academic year of 2017/2018. There were 64 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 32 students from class X.IPA A chosen as experimental group and class X.IPA C chosen as control group. The sample of this study was taken by using purposive sampling method. The instrument used in collecting the data was written test. The test was administered twice, as the pretest and posttest for both experimental and control group. The results of the test were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and Two-way ANOVA. From the result of the independent sample t-test, it was found that there was a significant difference from students’ posttest experimental and control group, since the p-output (0.002) was lower than 0.05. From the result of the Two-way ANOVA, it was found that there were significant differences on students’ descriptive text writing who were taught by using Guided Writing Strategy Strategy, since the p-output (0.197) was higher than 0.05. The result alsho showed that there was no significant interaction effect of students’descriptive writing in excellent, good, average and poor categories.

Cinquain Poem: A Stimulating Instructional Media in Teaching Writing

“…Third, Cinquain poem is one of the instructional media that can foster more interesting and meaningful learning environments as also stated by Kautzer (2012). This finding confirms the previous studies conducted by (Saputra & Marzulina, 2016;&Megawati, 2020) who found that interest and motivation influenced students learning achievement. In this study, the Students were challenged to select unique words that will embellish their poem by following the structure of the cinquain poem.…”

“…Those obstacles can then reduce the interest of students in writing and the encouragement of students in the classroom. In fact, the learning achievement of students may be influenced by their interest and motivation (Megawati, 2020;Saputra & Marzulina, 2016).Therefore, the quality of the students' writing still needs to be improved in terms of content, organization, and language used.…”

How do Students Perceive Guided Writing in Learning Descriptive Text?

“…Therefore, the result of the data showed high percentage which means students had a positive perception on the use of guided writing in learning descriptive text. The results were correlated with the previous research done by Ningsih (2016), Megawati (2020), andPurnomowati et al, (2018). Students reported feeling more prepared to write coherently about their experiences after participating in guided writing.…”

“…One of the appropriate techniques that could be applied was guided writing. According to Megawati (2020), guided writing was the part of a lesson plan that was meant to convey a certain concept to the class as a whole, to a smaller group, or to an individual student, and to provide them with opportunities to put that concept into practice through writing. It could be in the form of a model text, an outline, or questions.…”