THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING BRAINSTORMING STRATEGY TO THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AT SMKN 1 KARANGANYAR KEBUMEN GRADE X IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

This study is aimed at using Brainstorming Strategy to the students’ writing ability. First, to know what stages the researcher undergoes to hold the brainstorming strategy in the classroom of vocational school students. Second, to know how effective the use of brainstorming strategy in teaching writing to vocational high school students. Brainstorming is an informal way of generating topics to write about, or points to make about a topic. It can be done at any time during the writing process. There are four stages to hold Brainstorming Strategy. The stages are making a topic, making a list of words, narrowing the list of words and using the words as supporting details. The result of pre-test is 66.31 and the result of post-test is 69.61. Moreover, the result of t-test value is -2.236. The t-test value is lower than t-table. It means that using Brainstorming Strategy is effective.

Keyword: the effectiveness, brainstorming strategy, writing ability