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The Writing Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Jigsaw II Technique
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Institusion
Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Fajrin Edrus, Analisa
Subject
Bahasa Inggris 
Datestamp
2013-05-07 06:39:35 
Abstract :
Many people think that being able to write well is talent. Actually everyone will be able to write effectively if they are writing to learn some strategies and practice them. Writing is something done by someone to express thoughts, ideas, feeling, and information in written form. This research conducts under the considerations that the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 weak in writing. There are many students spent time too much in composing personal letter, lack of self confidence and idea. Beside that, writing class is always become quiet class because the students busy with themselves so there is no interaction. The objectives of this research are: (1) to find out the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 before being taught by using jigsaw II technique. (2) To find out the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 after being taught by using jigsaw II technique. (3) To find out if there is significant difference between the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using jigsaw II technique. This research was experimental research. The population of this research was the whole of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012. The writer took one class is XI-PM 2 as the sample of the research. The data were collected through written test. The result of this research shows that (1) the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 before being taught by using jigsaw II Technique is categorized “sufficient” by the average score is 65.4 and the standard deviation is 9.6. (2) The writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 after being taught by using jigsaw II Technique is categorized “good” by the average score is 76.5 and the standard deviation is 7.26. (3) There is significant difference between the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of SMK PGRI 1 Mejobo Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using jigsaw II technique. It shows by t-observation = 12.3 > t-table = 2.021 for level of significant 0.05 and df = 42-1 = 41. By seeing the problems faced by the students, it is better if the teacher uses jigsaw II technique in teaching writing. The teacher should motivate the students to be active in the classroom during teaching learning process to improve the students’ writing ability, especially personal letter. Meanwhile, the students should be more active in the teaching learning process because it makes them more confident and understand the material well and to be more creative in writing based on their imagination using jigsaw II technique.  
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Universitas Muria Kudus