THE EFFECTIVENESS OF READING ALOUD STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 33 PURWOREJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out whether or not there is any effect of using reading aloud strategy to improve student’ writing ability . It is conducted in order to know whether reading aloud strategy gives the advantages towards the students’ writing ability. This research is an experimental research which has conducted on the eighth grade students of SMP N 33 Purworejo in the school year of 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher took 66 students as the sample. As the experimental group, the researcher used class VIII B that consists of 33 students. Meanwhile, as the control group, the researcher took 33 students of class VIII C. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test to both classes. The test is the make a paragraph after the teacher read aloud the story about descriptive text. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test separated variance. The result of this research shows that it is effective of using reading aloud strategy to improve students’ writing ability, since it was found that the result of t-value is 2.057. Based on the 0.05 significant level, the value t-table is 1.999, the computation shows that t-value is higher that t-table that is 2.057> 1.999. The research findings indicate the students are interested in learning writing using reading aloud strategy.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Reading Aloud Strategy, Writing ability