Abstract:
The TTW objective of the research was to find out the effect of applying
think talk write strategy on students‘ achievement in writing descriptive
paragraph. TTW strategy helps student to generate the idea and engage
themselves more deeply in writing their expression dealing with their
imagination or their own experience. The population of this research was
tenth grade students of SMK NEGRI 9 Medan. at Academic year 2017/2018,
which consist of 50 students, and disputed into two classes, X-PEKSOS 1 and XPEKSOS
2.
They
were
devided
into
two
groups:
25
students
as
experimental
group
taught
by
using
TTW
strategy
and
25
students
as
control
group
taught
by
using
lecturing
method.The
instrument
of
the
research
is
written
test,
which
used
pre
test
and
post
test.
The
result
of
this
research
showed
that
t-observe
value
was
higher
than
t-
table
in
which
t-obs=
2,75>ttable
=
2,01.
The
hypotesis
was
accepted.
It
means
that
there
were
a
significant
effect
of
applying
think
talk
write
strategy
on
students‘
achievement
in
writing
descriptive
paragraph
