Abstract:
This study dealt with the effect of applying Structural Analytic Synthetic (SAS)
method assisted by Comic Strips as teaching media on students‟ achievement in
writing narrative text. The objective of this research was to investigate out
significant effect of applying Structural Analytic Synthetic method in writing or
not, to investigate out the students‟ difficulties in narrative text by Structural
Analytic Synthetic (SAS) method and to investigate out which one is higher, the
students‟ achievement taught by using Structural Analytic Synthetic (SAS)
method than the students‟ achievement taught by using direct method in teaching
writing. It was applied an experimental research. This research was conducted at
SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 3 MEDAN, Jl. Abdul Hakim No. 2, Tanjung Sari,
Medan. The population of this research was the VIII grade students of the
academic year 2017/2018. There were 4 classes consisting 120 students. The
samples consisted of 60 students were taken by using cluster random sampling
technique. The sample was divided into two classes, the experimental group
which consisted of 30 students taught by applying Structural Analytic Synthetic
(SAS) method and the control group consisted of 30 students by using direct
method. Writing test was used as the instrument. Each group was given a pre-test,
treatment and post-test. The students‟writing difficulties in narrative text of both
groups especially experimental group applying by Structural Analytic Synthetic
(SAS) method because students was lack of vocabulary, language use and
mechanism and the teacher difficult to manage class caused by students was
naughty and noisy. The result of this research showed t-observed (7.75) was
higher than t-table (2.00) or T > T with the level of significance 0.05 and
the degree of freedom (df) was 58. The final hypothesis showed that Ho was
rejected and Ha was accepted. It means there was a significant effect of applying
Structural Analytic Synthetic (SAS) method assisted by Comic Strips as teaching
media on students‟ writing achievement in writing narrative text.
