THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING INDEX CARD MATCH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA WIDYA KUTOARJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

The objectives of the study are (1) to know students’ writing ability of recount text of the tenth grade students of SMA Widya Kutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013 (2) to know the effect of using index card match in improving students’ writing ability in recount text. The kind of this research is experimental research. The subjects of this research are the tenth grade students of SMA Widya Kutoarjo in the academic year of 2012/2013, they are 30 students.  The result of the descriptive analysis shows that the tenth-grade students of SMA Widya Kutoarjo have good writing ability (Mean= 77.03, SD= 4.96). The result of the inferential analysis shows that there is a positive effect of using index card match in improving students’ writing ability in recount text the result of t-value is 5.18. Based on the 0.05 significant levels, the value of t-table is 2.000 (5.18>2.000) it means that the use of index card is effective to improve students’ writing ability in recount text.

Keywords: writing ability, recount text, index card match