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Teaching WritingProcedure Text Using Authentic Text as Media of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 4 Pati in Academic Year 2011/2012
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Universitas Muria Kudus
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Fitriana, Fitriana
Subject
Bahasa Inggris 
Datestamp
2013-03-18 05:26:36 
Abstract :
Writing is one of important skills which must be taught to senior high school students. However, many students have difficulties in writing. Students cannot write well because they have limited knowledge in English, grammar and vocabulary. It makes them repeat the same mistakes in constructing a sentence and cannot express what they have in mind. Therefore, the teacher should have alternative ways to teach writing. One way to increase their creativity is invite the students to active in direct practice. To solve the students’ problem to share their idea on written, authentic text is used to teach them in motivating their writing skill. This research has a purpose to find out the answer from the statement of the problem. The purpose is to find out whether or not there is any significant difference between the abilityof writing procedure textof the seventh grade students of SMPN 4 PATI before and after they were taught by authentic text. This is a quantitative research. The method of the research is experimental. This design of the research is the experimental method which uses pretest and posttest. The population is the seventh grade students of SMPN 4 Pati in the academic year 2011/2012. The total number of the population is 249 students. They are grouped into eight classes. The sample is taken one class from the population by using cluster random sampling through lottery. The data were taken from the written test. After the students were given the pretest, they were given the treatment for four meeting. The giving of the treatment relies on the material that taken from the syllabus of the school. Then, the data were analyzed using the t-test method to find out whether or not there is any significant difference between the ability of writing procedure textof the seventh grade students of SMPN 4 PATI before and after they were taught by authentic text. The result of the research, the mean of pretest is62and the mean of posttest is 76. It can be concluded that the t-observation 9.1 in the level of significance 5% and the degree of freedom (df) 29 which is gained from N-1, the t-table is 2.05. Thus, H0 is denied and Ha is confirmed. So, the hypothesis states, “There is any significant difference between the ability of writing procedure textof the seventh grade students of SMPN 4 PATI before and after they were taught by authentic text” is confirmed. I hope this study can be used by the teacher as one way to enrich the reference about improving the students’ writing skill, escpecially in procedure text in the seventh grade students, and also as a consideration for the teacher to choose authentic text as an alternative media to help and make students write the composition easily. The students can use the authentic text to share the ideas with other  
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Universitas Muria Kudus