The Effect Of Using Dicto Comp Technique Towards Students' Writing Ability in Writing Descriptive Text At 8th Grade of SMPN 3 Harau
ABSTRACT Arrom Kenanga Oston, 2315049, The Effect Of Using Dicto-Comp Technique toward Students’ Writing Ability In Writing Descriptive Text at 8th Grade of SMPN 3 HARAU. A thesis, Islamic University of Sjech Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, 2022 This research was due to some problems that were found in SMPN 3 Harau. First, it was found that the students cannot write some spelling correctly. Second, the teacher said that the students always complain when they were asked to write.Third, students are lacking of understanding with their own writing and the teacher just use one technique in teaching english. The aim of this research was to find out whether there was significant effect and different of using dicto-comp towards the students’ writing ability. The researcher used the quantitative research. The design of this research was experimental research because it has the purpose to know the effect of using dicto-compon students’ writing. the researcher chose the quasi-experimental research is research that resembles experimental research but is not true experimental research.researcher chose the Pretest Posttest Control Design, which in this design there were two groups in this research. Experimental group was treated by using dicto-comp and the control group which was treated without using dicto-compbetweeen pretest and posttest. The researcher chose VIII 1 as the experiment class and VIII 2 as the control class because both VIII 1 and VIII 2 class have the same ability in writing and are taught by the same teacher. The instrument use in this research was test.The test was writing descriptive text which the students are given several topic and they have to make a descriptive text. The research findings indicates that,the result of post-test in experimental classhas t-obtained (9,281) was higher than t-table (2,00) with degree of freedom (df) = 60. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (ha) was accepted which means that there was significant effect of using Dicto Comp Technique toward students writing descriptive text ability.There was significant difference of the students’ writing between the students who are taught by using dicto-comp and the students who are not taught by using dicto-comp and the students who used dicto-comp had better writing decriptive text than the students who are not taught by using dicto-comp. Thus, it can be concluded that the intire hypothesis was accepted. It was proved that Dicto Comp Technique could help students in improving and enggaging their writing descriptive text ability and Dicto Comp Technique is recomended to be lesed by english lesson in teaching writing descriptive text. Key Terms : Writing Descriptive Text, Dicto-comp Technique.