THE INFLUENCE OF APPLYING ACROSTIC TECHNIQUE ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN LEARNING ENGLISH

The objective of this study was to know the influence of applying the acrostic technique on the students’ achievement in learning English. The study applied the experimental method. The population of this research was the students the second semester in FKIP UMSU which consisted of 175 students, the researcher took 50% and there were 88 students as the sample. The samples were divided into two groups, the first group was the experimental group by using the acrostic technique that consisted of 44 students and the second group was control group by using conventional method that consisted of 44 students. The data were acquired by administrating a writing test especially the description of people. The data collected were analyzed by performing experimental techniques. After analyzing, the result of the students’ using the acrostic technique was higher than those being taught by using a conventional method. The result of the data was tobserve > ttable or 2.87 > 2.03 for 5%. It means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. From determining the percentage of the influence of x variable toward y variable in writing descriptive text was 80% and 20% was influenced by another factor.