THE EFFECT OF DESCRIPTION, INTERPRETATION, AND EVALUATION (DIE) TECNIQUE ON THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating the effect of Description, Interpretation and
Evaluation (DIE) Technique on the students achievement in writing descriptive
text. The research was conducted in experimental design. The subject of this study
was the 2013/2014 grade XI students of SMA N1 Tanjungpura. The sample that
was involved in this research was 60 students that were chosen randomly, that in
each group there were 30 students. The experimental group was taught by
applying Description, Interpretation and Evaluation (DIE) Technique, while
control group was taught by applying Lecture Method. The instrument used in this
study was an subjective test. The data were taken by administering the pre-test
and post-test to both of experimental and control groups. The data were analyzed
by using t-test formula, the analysis showed that the score of the students in the
experimental group was significantly higher than that of students in the control
group at the level of significance 0,5 with the degree of freedom (df) 58; the tobserved
is 3,3 while the t-table is 2,00. To obtain the reliability of the test, the
writer used the Pearson Product Moment Formula. The result of the study showed
that the reliability of the test was 0,92. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is
rejected.