The Effect of Four Square Writing Method (FSWM) on Students’s Achievement in Writing Descriptive Paragraph

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find out the significant effect of four square writing method on students’s achievement in writing descriptive paragraph and to find out the students’ difficulties in writing descriptive paragraph by FSWM. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 06 Belawan at academic year 2016/2017. The populations were 301 students which distributed in seven class VIII-1 until VIII-7. The sample of this study was VIII-1, which was taken by purposive sampling technique and then was being as the experimental group, and being treated by using FSWM. The instrument in collecting the data was written test in the form of writing descriptive paragraph. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that t-observed was higher than t-table (42,99 < 1.684) with the level significant 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 37. The finding showed that the hypothesis of study is accepted. It means that FSWM gave a significant effect in increasing the students’s achievement in writing. The students’ difficulties in writing descriptive paragraph by FSWM from the result of analysis stated that from mechanism there were 79,4% students that got the difficulties by FSWM