Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the significant effect of applying
Simultaneous Roundtable strategy on the students’ achievement in writing
anecdote text. The research design of this study was in experimental research. The
instrument to collect the data was written test. The technique taken sample used
Totaly sampling to determine the control and the experimental group. In addition,
there were pre-test, treatment or teaching and post-test in both of the groups. It
was conducted at the tenth grade students of SMK Swasta Bandung-2.The result
showed that the mean score in pre-test of experimental group was 48.1 and control
group was 32.2. And the mean score post-test of experimental group 82.25 and
control group 64. t-test was 5.27 and the t-table was 1.64 which was used 0.05 as
the significant level of this research. Because the t-test was higher than the t-table
(5.27 >1.64), it showed 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
applying Simultaneous Roundtable Strategy on the students’ achievement in
writing anecdote text.