TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING IN IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out the significant of the students’ achievement in content and grammar through creative writing at the eighth grade of smpn 1 Siompu Barat. This research employed pre-experimental research design. There were two variables, they were teaching technique use creative writing class and effectiveness of creative writing for students in terms of content and grammar. The sample was consisted of 30 students which were taken by using total sampling. The instrument was writing test consisted of 6 items questions. The result of the data indicated that there was a significant difference between students’ pre-test and post-test. The mean score of students on pre-test in content and grammar was 42.17 and 39.27, This were categorized as very poor and after post-test was 72.17 and 69.33 become good. The final result from the research shows that t-test value for the final score of students’ writing skill 21.02>t-table=1.669, it is said that the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) is accepted.