The Effect of Applying Fishbone Diagram Strategy on The Students’ Achievement In Writing Pro

Abstract

This research deals with The Effect of Applying Fishbone Diagram Strategy on the Students’ Achievement in writing Procedure Text. The objective of this research were to find out the effect of applying Fishbone Diagram Strategy on the Students’ Achievement in Writing Procedure Text and to find out the students difficulties of applying Fishbone Diagram Strategy on the students achievement in writing Procedure text. The population of this study was the eighth grade students’ of SMP Satria Nusantara Binjai academic year 2016/2017 on Jln. Sukarno Hatta KM 19,2 Binjai which consisted of two parallel classes namely: class VIII-1 and class VIII-2. The total number of population was 60 students and the researcher took all the students as the sample. This research used experimental design. The sample were devided into two groups, the first group (VIII-1) which consist of 30 students was experimental group which given treatment by applying fishbone diagram strategy and the second group (VIII-2) which consist of 30 students was control group which given treatment by applying free writing strategy. The instrument of this research was a written test in the form of writing procedure text. The test given to students aimed to collect the data supporting the students’ achievement in writing procedure text. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the result showed that t-observed were 6.37 and t-table were 2.00. the fact showed t-observed higher than t-table. Therefore, Ha hypothesis was accepted and the Ho hypothesis was rejected and the students’ difficulties in writing procedure text by applying Fishbone Diagram Strategy from the result of analysis stated that from language use there were 60% students that got the difficulties