The Effect of Using RAFT Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Writing Short Functional Text

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find out the significant effect of using RAFT strategy on students’ achievement in writing short functional text. The population of this study was the eight grade students of SMP Tarbiyah Islamiyah at academic year 2017/2018. The population were 90 students which distributed in three classes VIII-1 until VIII-3. The sample of this study was VIII-1 and VIII-3, which was taken by total cluster random sampling technique and then was being as the experimental group, and being treated by using RAFT strategy. The instrument in collecting the data was written test in the form of writing short functional text. Each group was given a treatment, pre-test and post-test. The t-test was 15.76 and t-table was 2.002 which was used 0.05 as the significant level of this research. Because the t-test value is higher than t-table (15.76 > 2.002), it show that the result in t-test was accepted (Ha). Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that there was significant effect of using RAFT strategy on the students’ achievement in writing short functional text