Abstract:
The study attemped to investigate learning writing by using probing prompting
technique that is better to the students’ achievement in writing hortatory
exposition text. The objectives of the study were to find out the students’ score by
using probing prompting technique. The population of this research was the
eleventh grade student of SMA SWASTA SWAKARYA SALAPIAN
LANGKAT 2017/2018 Academic Year. The population was class XI IPA II
consist 30 students. The instrument for collecting data of this research is writing
test. In this, students was write a descriptive text based on topic given. After that,
the researcher taken the students’ answer sheet. Giving the score to the students’
answer, based on the scoring writing of the some indicators ( Content,
Organization, Vocabulary, Language use. And Mechanic). Table revealed in the
test II the mean of the students’ score was 74,4 and there were only 16 students
who got score up to 75 points. The table showed the students’ achievement in
writing hortatory exposition text was still need to be improved. In order to get
higher improvement in the number of students who got score up to 75 points in
the second cycle, there were 25 students getting score up to 75 points with the
percentage 76,66% and the students’ mean score was 79,5. These number showed
that the application of probing prompting technique could improve students’
achievement in writing hortatory exposition text. So the application of this
technique was effective
