The Effect Of Applying Synectic Model On The Students’ Achievement In Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of Synectic Model on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was applied by using experimental research design. This research was conducted at SMP YP Bina Satria on Jalan Marelan Pasar 1 Rel Kecamatan Medan Marelan. It was conducted at the eighth grade students of the first semester at 2018/2019 academy year as the population and sample of this research. There were two parallel classes,which each class consisted of 32 students. So, the total population was 64 students. The data of research were obtained by giving test about writing descriptive text to the students.The research data were analyzed by using t-test to find out the significane effect of the model used. The result showed that there was difference on writing achievement between the students who were taught by Synectic Model and those who were taught by conventional method. It was proven by the value of t at 1.75 and ttest was 3.27. It means that the was higher than the ttable at the level of significane of 0.05 (1.670). Based on the research finding, it was concluded that the using of Synectic Model gave the significane effect on students’ achievement in writing, especially in form of descriptive text.