Improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text through guiding question at SMPN 13 Bandar Lampung

Abstract

The aims of the research were to find out whether there was an improvement of the students’ writing ability in descriptive text and students’ perceptions after the the implementation of Guiding Question. The research was a quantitative-qualitative research. The design used in this research was one group pretest and posttest. The subjects were 24 students of class VIII E of SMP Negeri 13 Bandar Lampung. The instruments were writing test and interview protocol. The data were in the form of scores and transcripts taken from the pretest and posttest and those were analyzed by using Paired Sample t-test. The results showed that students’ writing score was gained 13.75 points from 50.16 in pretest to 63.91 in posttest and the statistical result showed that the significance score was 0.00 it means that there is a significant improvement on students’ ability in writing descriptive text since 0.00 < 0.05. Furthermore, the result of the interview showed that students found it easy and enjoyed while learning descriptive text through Guiding Questions so it can be concluded that students had positive perceptions during the implementation of guiding questions technique in the class. The result of the interview also shows that most students did not feel any difficulties, stressed or frustrated and they were also interested and motivated when this media was applied. It can be concluded that Guiding Questions provides a positive impact for the students when it was applied in the class as a teaching media.