The Effect of Applying Cubing Strategy on Students’ Writing in Descriptive text at The eight Grade of SMP Baitul Azis Medan at Academic Years 2016/2017

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Cubing strategy improves students’ writing skill which is focused on writing descriptive text. The method used in this research is tests by using true experimental design typed of pretestposttest design. Besides, quantitative approach is apllied. Random sampling and random assignment are used to determine the control and the experimental group. In addition, there are pre-test, treatment or teaching and post-test in both of the groups. It was conducted at the eight grade students of SMP Baitul Azis Medan. Students’ mean scores of pre-test in the Control Group are 52.14 and 61.42 for post-test, meanwhile, students’ mean scores of pre-test in the Experimental Group are 55.71 and 82.32 for the post-test. Thus, the t-test in the Experimental Group is 8.81 and the t-table is 2.048 which is used 0.05 as the significant level of this research. Because the t-test value is higher than the t-table (8.81>2.048), Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that Cubing strategy can improve students’writing skill in descriptive text. Indeed, it is recommended for teachers to apply this technique in teaching English, especially in teaching writing.