Skripsi English
THE USE OF RECIPROCAL TEACHING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS ABILITY TO WRITE A SUMMARY ESSAY
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ABSTRACT
Keywords: reciprocal teaching, writing, summary essay.
In learning English, the students have to master four skills in English which include
reading, writing, speaking, listening. Writing skill is expected to make students get new
information in the process of reading and share their knowledge or ideas on the writing process.
Thus, an appropriate technique is required to ease students write a paragraph. This study
investigates the use of reciprocal teaching technique on students’ ability to write a summary essay.
Pre -Experimental method and One Group Pretest-Posttest design is used in this research. The
research is conducted to eleventh grade students of SMA Rimba Madya and 29 students are taken
as sample. The data are collected through pre-test and post-test in the form of essay test to make
summary essay in three paragraphs including introduction, body, conclusion. Then, the t-test is
used to analyze the data. It indicates that the highest score of pre -test is 70 in the mount 17%, with
the total students are five. The students who got the lowest score is one student on score 35 at the
mount 24%. However, the highest score of post – test is 90 in the mount 17%, with the total
students are five. Then, the lowest score is 55 at the mount 21%, with the total students are six
students.The result of the analysis indicates that the value of t-test is 9 and the value of t-table at
0.05 level of significance is 2.05. This indicates that the value of t-calculated is higher than t-table
(9 >2.05), hence alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can be concluded that reciprocal
teaching technique affects on students’ ability to write a summary essay
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