Abstract:
The objective of the research was to find out the effect of Freewriting technique
on students’ achievement in writing report text by using freewriting technique.
Freewriting technique 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 eleventh grade students’
of MAS AL- WASHLIYAH 22 TEMBUNG Jl. Besar Tembung No. 78 A. In
academic year 2016/2017, which the total of population was 119 students. The
sample was 30 students. The sample was taken 25% from each class.In this
research, an experimental method used to get the data. It was called one group pre
test – post test design. 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 (4.89 > 2.04). The hyphotesis was accepted.
It means that there was a significant effect of applying freewriting technique on
students’ achievement in writing report text
