Abstract:
The objective of this research was to investigate out the significant effect of
applying grammar translation method on the students’ achievement in writing.
The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 47 Sunggal in academic
year 2019/2020. The population of this study was students at eight grade in junior
high school (VIII-1, VIII-2, VIII-3). The total sample was 42 students consist of
21 of VIII-1 and 21 of VIII-2. This research used experimental study with two
different groups, the first is experimental group which has taught by using
grammar translation method that consist of 21 students and the second is control
group was taught without using grammar translation method that consist of 21
students. The instrument used in this study was the written test. Technique for
collecting data was experimental quantitative. The data is t-test>t-table or
12.92>2.021. The precentage of the effect of x variable and y variable or the
effect of using grammar translation method on the students’ achievement in
writing was 75% and 25% was influenced by other factor. It means that the
alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. From this
research, it was found that applying grammar translation method could cause a
positive effect on students studying written simple paragraph. After analyzing the
result of the sudents achievement using grammar translation gave significant
effect on the students’ achievement in writing.
