THE EFFECT OF ACROSTIC TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract

This research aimed to finding out whether students’ achievement taught by using
Acrostic Technique has significant effect than that was taught by Group
Investigation Method in Writing Descriptive Text. The research was conducted by
Experimental research using two groups. They are Experimental groupthat used
Acrostic Technique and Control group that used Group Discussion Method. The
population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA Swasta Kesuma
Bangsa Londut. There were three parallel classes which consist of 30 students for
each class. The data was taken from writing test. After analyzing the data, it was
found that the value of tobserved was 4.511 with degree of freedom (df) 28 at the
level of significance p (0.05) = 2.048. It means that tobserved (4.511) is higher than
ttable (2.048). It was found that students’ achievement in Writing Descriptive Text
taught by Acrostic Technique has significant effect.