The Effect Of Applying Grammar Translation Method on Students’ Achievement in Writing

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate out the significant effect of applying grammar translation method on the students’ achievement in writing. The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 47 Sunggal in academic year 2019/2020. The population of this study was students at eight grade in junior high school (VIII-1, VIII-2, VIII-3). The total sample was 42 students consist of 21 of VIII-1 and 21 of VIII-2. This research used experimental study with two different groups, the first is experimental group which has taught by using grammar translation method that consist of 21 students and the second is control group was taught without using grammar translation method that consist of 21 students. The instrument used in this study was the written test. Technique for collecting data was experimental quantitative. The data is t-test>t-table or 12.92>2.021. The precentage of the effect of x variable and y variable or the effect of using grammar translation method on the students’ achievement in writing was 75% and 25% was influenced by other factor. It means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. From this research, it was found that applying grammar translation method could cause a positive effect on students studying written simple paragraph. After analyzing the result of the sudents achievement using grammar translation gave significant effect on the students’ achievement in writing.