Abstract:
This study deals with the effect of using self directed learning combined
with small group discussion on the students’ achievement in writing expository
paragraph. The objective is to investigate the effect of using self directed learning
combined with small group discussion on the students’ achievement in writing
expository paragraph. This research was conducted at SMK T. Amir Hamzah
Indrapura on 2016/2017 academic year from february until march 2017. This
research was applied descriptive quantitative method with experimental research
design. The population of this research was the eleventh grade student consist of
70 students, which distributed into two classes XI-1 and XI-2 akuntansi. By using
total sampling technique, all the population were taken as the sampling to obtain
the data, written test was administration to the student. It was scored by using
writing scoring system according to Brown (2007). The results shows that tobserved was higher than t-table (29.36 > 1.684) at α = 0.05, and df = 33. It means
that Ha was accepted and Ho is rejected. So, applying self directed learning
combined with small group discussion has a positive effect on the students’
achievement in writing expository paragraph. The influence of this method to the
students achievement is 96%, and 4% was by other factor.
