THE EFFECT OF CLASSWIDE PEER TUTORING STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT GRADE X OF SMA SWASTA DAERAH SEI BEJANGKAR IN 2022/2023 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This research was intended to find out the empirical evidence of the students’ achievement ability in writing descriptive text by using Class wide Peer Tutoring Strategy at grade X of SMA Swasta Sei Daerah Bejangkar. This research was experimental research. The population of the research was all students’ of class  X of SMA Swasta Daerah Sei Bejangkar the sample of this research were taken from 32 students’ of experimental group (class X-1) and 32 students’ of control group (class X-2). The instrument for collecting data was a test. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. From this analysis, the mean of experimental group was 84,21 and the mean of control group was 66,25. This research found that using Class wide Peer Tutoring Strategy has significant effect in writing ability. It can be proved by the result of the the analysis that t_score (t_o) = 19,92 was higher than t_table (t_t) = 1,998 with the significant 0,05. So, Ha is accepted. In the other word, the using of Class wide peer Tutoring Strategy more effective and more significant than using conversional strategy.

Key words: Class wide Peer Tutoring Strategy, Descriptive Text, Writing.