THE EFECT OF SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION ON STUDENT WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of the Small group discussion Strategy on the Writing Skills of Students X Class of SMA Swasta Al’mashum Sidodadi in the 2022/2023 Academic Year. The population of the research is 70 students. The strategy used in the study was a small group discussion for treatment in an experimental class consisting of 35 students. They were asked to discuss with group friends to understand story, then write it in the forms of narrative text while in the control class the conventional method was used, namely 35 students. After receiving the treatment, the student writing skill were getting better. Based on the t-test calculation, the product moment degree of freedom (df) = n-2 35-2=33 obtained thitung > ttable, namely thitung = 3.745 and thitung = 1.692 significance 0.000 < 0.005 (Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted).

Keywords: Small Group Discussion Strategy, Narrative Text, Writing