THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING THINK – TALK – WRITE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK N 1 PURING KEBUMEN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2014/2015

Abstract

Writing is among the most complex human activities. It involves the development of a design idea, the capture of mental representations of knowledge, and of experience with subjects. As one of the language skill, writing is very important for the students. However in fact, the students have no enough capability to express their idea with English in written language. They often face many difficulties in writing. Therefore, teacher has to help the students in solving the writing problems such as by using an appropriate strategy in teaching-learning process.

The objective of the study is to find out whether the use of Think-Talk-Write strategy effective to improve students’ writing ability at the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Puring Kebumen in the academic year of 2014/2015. The strategy is selected since it encourages students to think, talk, and write based on the particular topic. Think-Talk-Write Strategy is used to develop the writing fluently an exercise the language before write them. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Puring Kebumen and the researcher take 60 students as the sample which divided into two classes. The independent variable is the use of Think- Talk-Write strategy in teaching writing and the dependent variable is the students’ writing result manifested in the test score. The students were given a pre-test for both groups before the treatment was conducted. At the end of the experiment, each group was given a post-test. The researcher analyzed the data by using descriptive statistic analysis (mean, median, mode, SD, and the highest and lowest score) inferential analysis (normality test, test of homogeneity and t-test as test of hypothesis)

After analyzing the data, the researcher concludes that teaching writing using Think-Talk- Write is effective. As the fact, the result of t-value is 4.68 based on the 5% (0.05) significant level, the value of t-table is 2.045. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 4.68>2.000. Related to the result of t-test the mean score of post-test is higher than the mean score of pre-test (76.26>64.23). And mean score of post-test of experimental also higher than control class (76.26>68.63). It means that Think-Talk-Writes strategy is effective to improve students’ writing ability at the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Puring Kebumen in the academic year of 2014/2015.

Key word: Effectiveness, Think-Talk-Write Strategy, Writing Ability.