The effect of Applying Group Mentoring Technique on Students’ Achievement in Writing Recount Text

Abstract

The objective of the research was to find out the effect of applying group mentoring technique on students‘ achievement in writing recount textand to found out the students‘ difficulties in writing recount text by using group mentoring technique. Group mentoring technique helps student to generate the idea and engage themselves more deeply in writing their expression dealing with their imagination or their own experience. The population of this research was eighth grade students‘ of SMP Muhammadiyah 58 Sukaramai, Medan. In Academic year 2016/2017, which the total of population was 46 students. They were devided in to two groups: 30 students as experimental group and 30 students as control group. The experimental group was given treatment by group mentoring technique and control group using direct method. The instrument of the research is written test, which used pre test and post test. The result of this research showed that t- observe value was higher than t- table in which tobs >ttable .The hypotesis was accepted. It means that there were a significant effect of applying group mentoring technique on students‘ achievement in writing recount text.