@thesis{thesis, author={SARI AULIA NURLITA}, title ={THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SHORT FUNCTIONAL TEXT BY USING PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL) TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN TEACHING LEARNING ENGLISH (An Experimental Study at the SMA PGRI Cepu in Academic Year 2018/2019)}, year={2019}, url={http://repository.ikippgribojonegoro.ac.id/46/}, abstract={Abstract Nurlita Sari Aulia (Student Number : 15120044), 2019. The Effectiveness of Short Functioal Text By Using Problem Based Learning Technique to Improve Students? Writing Ability in Teaching Learning English (An exprimental Study at the SMA PGRI Cepu in the Accademic Year 2018/2019). Skripsi. Bojonegoro. English Education Department of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro. Key Words : Writing, Descriptive Text, Procedure Text, Problem Based Learning (PBL) Technique, Senior High School Writing is a medium of human comunication that represent languages and emotion with signs and symbols. Writing is not a language but a tool used to make languages be read. Writing is express feeling, ideas, argument and etc. By this research the writer will to know about the students writing abilty by short functional text. By using quantitative research the writen get the data from the pre-test and post-test from students Senior High School at XMIPA students. The finding in this research are the student low in the vocabulary and writing technique.Descriptive text is a text to describe something and Procedure text is a to describe how to do something. This research problem is the Problem Based Learning Technique effective to improve students writing skill? The objectives of the study is : 1)To know the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning Technique to improve student in writing ability in teaching learning English; 2)To improve student?s writing ability in by Procedure Text and DescriptiveText. Method of the research: Experimental research one group pre-test and posttest design. It is intended to find out any significant difference on the writing. The population of this study was all the X students at SMA PGRI Cepu. The sample was X ? MIPA Class that consisting of 11 students. The technique of data analysis is using T-test.} }