The effect of Applying Think Talk Write Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Writing Descriptive Paragraph

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