THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MAKE MATCH TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 4 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether make match technique is effective or not to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. The type of this research is experimental research. The number of the sample is 63. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test. And to analysis the data, the researcher used t-test formula. The result of the research finds that the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 73.74 and the mean score of post-test is 84.90. Then the value of t-test is 6.34 and the t-table is 2.000. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 6.34 > 2.000 so it can be stated that the hypothesis “make match  technique to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text is effective” is accepted.

Keywords : Effectiveness, Writing ability, Make Match technique, Descriptive Text.