Abstract:
The objectives of the research were to find out the effect of quick write strategy
on students‟ achievement in dictationand to find out the students‟ difficulties in
dictation by using quick write strategy. Quick write strategy helps student to
generate the idea and engage themselves more deeply in writing their expressions
dealing with their imagination or their own experience. The population of this
research was the eighth grade students‟ of SMP Negeri 05 Medan Jl. Desa Besar
in academic year 2017/2018, which the total population was 148 students. They
were divided into two groups : 37 students as experimental group and 37 students
as control group. So, the total of the sample were 74 students. The experimental
group was given treatment by quick write strategy and control group using
conventional strategy. The instrument of the research is written test, which used
pre-test and post-test. The result of this research showed that t-observed value was
higher than t-table in which tobserved > ttable (3.62 > 1.99). The hypothesis was
accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of applying quick write
strategy on students‟ achievement in dictation
