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The Comparison of the Writing Ability of the Eleventh Grade Students between Social and Language Classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013
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Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Fitriana, Ardhian
Subject
Bahasa Inggris 
Datestamp
2013-06-27 03:08:47 
Abstract :
Writing Ability is deliver from that explain of course we need to practice or express what idea in our mind in the form of list, letter, essay, reports, or novels. It is also taught to the eleventh grade students in social and language classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus. Therefore, the English teachers have to always help to improve the students’ writing ability. Social Class is class which has focuses in social subject itself and just limited in learning English subject. Language Class is class which has focuses in language subject, especially in English subject. The objective of this research is to find out the significant difference of the writing ability of the eleventh grade students between social and language classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in academic year 2012/2013. The design of this research is ex post facto research. The population of this research is all of eleventh grade students in social and language classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus. The writer takes two classes as a sample by using cluster random sampling technique, they are; class XI social 5 and XI language 1. The research instrument used by the writer is documentation of writing ability score from English teacher of class XI social 5 and class XI language 1 of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus. The result shows that in level of significance 0.05 and degree of freedom 52, there is a significant difference between writing ability of the eleventh grade students in social and language classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in academic year 2012/2013. It is shown from the calculation result t-obtained is 4, meanwhile t-table is 2.201. It means that the null hypothesis is rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted (t_o= 4 > t-table = 2.021). The writing ability of eleventh grade students in social class is good (Mean = 73.74 and SD = 11.65). However, the writing ability of the eleventh grade students in language class is excellent (Mean = 76.94 and SD = 11.58). Based on the fact above, it proves that writing ability between the eleventh grade students in social and language classes of SMA 1 Mejobo Kudus in academic year 2012/2013 is different. The conclusion is that the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of language class is better than the writing ability of the eleventh grade students of social class of SMA1 Mejobo Kudus in Academic Year 2012/2013. The suggestions are (1) before measuring the students’ writing ability, a teacher has to know how students interested in English, especially for writing, (2) the students must be brave to ask to their teacher when they face some difficulties in writing, (3) the further researcher can compare other ability of social and language classes.  
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Universitas Muria Kudus