The Effect of Applying Social Interactive Writing For English Language Learners (SWELL) Method on the Students’ Achievement in Writing Narrative Paragraph

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know and to find out The Effect of Applying Social Interactive Writing For English Language Learners (SWELL) Method on the Students’ Achievement in Writing Narrative Paragraph. The population of this study was the student of the X IPA of SMA Muhammadiyah 02 Medan at academic year 2017-2018. There total number of population were 30, consisted of two classes. The sample were 30, and according to Arikunto, if the sample less than 100 then the sample same as the population, and then the sample was divided into two group, namely experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by using SWELL Method and control group was taught without SWELL Method. The instrument for collecting the data was writing test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis shows that tobserved value is higher than t-table (8.82 > 2.04) at level of significant 0.05 with

the degree of freedom 28. It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted

and

null hypothesis is rejected. Based on the finding of this study, it was found that there is a significant effect of SWELL Method on students’ achievement in writing narrative paragraph. Hence, the writer suggested that the English teacher might consider using SWELL Method as an alternative method in teaching writing.