Abstract:
The objective of the research was to find out the effect of applying group
mentoring technique on students‘ achievement in writing recount textand to found
out the students‘ difficulties in writing recount text by using group mentoring
technique. Group mentoring technique 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 eighth
grade students‘ of SMP Muhammadiyah 58 Sukaramai, Medan. In Academic year
2016/2017, which the total of population was 46 students. They were devided in
to two groups: 30 students as experimental group and 30 students as control
group. The experimental group was given treatment by group mentoring
technique and control group using direct 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 tobs >ttable .The hypotesis
was accepted. It means that there were a significant effect of applying group
mentoring technique on students‘ achievement in writing recount text.
