THE EFFECT OF USING REVIEW STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL AT SMAN 18 MAKASSAR

Abstract

This study aimed to know the effect of using review strategy to improve student writing skill at SMAN 18 Makassar. This study focused on pre-experimental research one group pre-test and post-test. The population in this study was students of class XI IPA SMAN 18 Makassar. The writer took one class from the target population for the research.The sample to be used is class XI IPA 3, the number of samples is 36 students. Data obtained from writing test. The results of this study used inferential analysis of the t-test by SPSS v.16, which showed a significant effect on the students’ mean score writing skill between the pretest and post-test. The mean score of the students’ writing enhanced from 55.10 in the pretest to 88.90 in the posttest. The significance value calculated 0.000 is smaller than 0.05 (P-value = 0.000 < 0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that the review strategy is effect applied to improve students’ writing skill at SMAN 18 Makassar