THE EFFECT OF USING CUBING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS' WRITING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT OF SMP NEGERI 2 SATU ATAP KOLANG

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out: 1) the application of cubing strategy on teaching writing ability, 2) the student’s writing ability before and after using cubing strategy, 3) whether there is significant effect of cubing strategy on student’s writing ability at the eight grade students. The research use pre-experimental with one group pretest and posttest as design. Population and sample in this research are the entire students’ at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Satu Atap Kolang 40 students with using total sampling as a data collection technique. In collecting data, researcher used observation sheets and tests as instruments. The results of this research is : 1) the score average aplication of the cubing strategy is 3.07 with categorized "Good". 2) the score average students' writing ability before cubing strategy is 39.39 with categorized "Very Bad". Meanwhile, after using the cubing strategy is 58.68 with categorized "Bad". The research use uji wilcoxon as analysis data, because the data pretest distribution abnormal. The result of uji wilcoxon is <0.01 it means Ha accepted, where is score accepted if score significance <0.05 . It means that there is a significant effect of using cubing strategy on students' writing ability of descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Satu Atap Kolang 2023/2024 academic year.