The Effect of Applying Quick Write Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Dictation at SMP Negeri 05 Medan

Abstract

The objectives of the research were to find out the effect of quick write strategy on students‟ achievement in dictationand to find out the students‟ difficulties in dictation by using quick write strategy. Quick write strategy helps student to generate the idea and engage themselves more deeply in writing their expressions dealing with their imagination or their own experience. The population of this research was the eighth grade students‟ of SMP Negeri 05 Medan Jl. Desa Besar in academic year 2017/2018, which the total population was 148 students. They were divided into two groups : 37 students as experimental group and 37 students as control group. So, the total of the sample were 74 students. The experimental group was given treatment by quick write strategy and control group using conventional strategy. The instrument of the research is written test, which used pre-test and post-test. The result of this research showed that t-observed value was higher than t-table in which tobserved > ttable (3.62 > 1.99). The hypothesis was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of applying quick write strategy on students‟ achievement in dictation