THE EFFECT OF HAMBURGER STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS WRITING SKILL IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 1 GUNUNG TOAR
ABSTRACT Arfahanis, BP 2313.130 : “ The Effect of Hamburger Strategy towards Students’ Writing Skill in Recount Text at Class VIII Of State Junior High School 1 Gunung Toar” Thesis, Institue Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) BUKITTINGGI 2019 This research was aimed to know the effect of Using Hamburger Strategy toward students skill in writing recount text of students in class VIII of state Junior High School 1 Gunung Toar. The reseracher found several problems at the field, one of them was students not mastered in vocabulary and language use, they could not explore their vocabulary and lack of idea to started writing. The researcher used experimental research. The type of this research was quasy experimental design by using the pre-test-post-test control group design. The population of this research was students class VIII state of Junior High School 1 Gunung Toar. The sample was VIII A As Experiment class and VIII C as Control class. In collecting the data, the researcher used written test. To analyze the data the researcher used t-test formula and consulted the result into t-table with level of significant α = 0,05 The resercher found that the result of the pre-test and post-test scores of the experiment class t_o (7,01) was higher than t_(table )(1,99) with degree of freedom (df) =62. So, H_o was rejected and H_a was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of using Hamburger Strategy toward students skill in writing recount text. Then, the calculation of post test both classes: was experimental class and control class, it was obtained that t_o (4,31) was higher than t_(table )(2.00) with degree of freedom (df) = 60. So, the alternative hypothesis (H_a) was accepted which means that there is significant differences between using Hamburger Strategy and conventional strategy. It can be concluded that entire hypothesis is accepted. It proved that using Hamburger Strategy as a writing strategy can help the students in improving their ability in writing recount text. Key words : Hamburger Strategy, Writing Recount Text