Abstract:
The objective of this study was to find out the significant effect of using RAFT
strategy on students’ achievement in writing short functional text. The population
of this study was the eight grade students of SMP Tarbiyah Islamiyah at academic
year 2017/2018. The population were 90 students which distributed in three
classes VIII-1 until VIII-3. The sample of this study was VIII-1 and VIII-3, which
was taken by total cluster random sampling technique and then was being as the
experimental group, and being treated by using RAFT strategy. The instrument in
collecting the data was written test in the form of writing short functional text.
Each group was given a treatment, pre-test and post-test. The t-test was 15.76 and
t-table was 2.002 which was used 0.05 as the significant level of this research.
Because the t-test value is higher than t-table (15.76 > 2.002), it show that the
result in t-test was accepted (Ha). Based on the result of this research, it can be
concluded that there was significant effect of using RAFT strategy on the
students’ achievement in writing short functional text
