THE USE OF RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 GETASAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

Fitriana, Ana (2018) THE USE OF RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 GETASAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract : Fitriana, Ana.2018.The Use of RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Strategy to Improve Students’ Writing Ability of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Getasan in the Academic Year of 2017/2018.Graduating Paper.Teacher Training and Education Faculty.English Education Department.State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. Consultant: Maslihatul Umami, M.A Key Words: RAFT Strategy, Writing, Ability The research is mainly aimed to improve students’ writing skill using RAFT strategyat the second grade students of SMAN 1 Getasan in the academic year of 2017//2018.The subject of this research consists of 26 students in X.IPA class. The objectives of the study are: (1) To find out whether the implementation of RAFT strategy improves students’ writing ability. (2) To find out how far the RAFT strategy improves writing ability. The methodology of the research is classroom action research by giving two pre-test, treatments, and post-test. Each cycle there are two meetings consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data are collected through observation, test, and documentation. The researcher found that the students are active in teaching learning process. The result of the implementation of RAFT strategy to improve students’ writing ability is successful. It can be seen from the T-test the first cycle and the second cycle is higher than the T-table. The T-table is 2.06. The first cycle, the mean of the post-test is 58.46, is higher than the mean of the pre- test 45.19. While the T-test is 4.21. In the second cycle, the mean of the post-test is 72.30, is higher than the mean of the pre- test 60.57. The result of T-test is 5.94. The improvement of the students’ writing ability using RAFT strategy is significant. It can be seen from the number of students who pass the passing grade in two cycles. The passing grade is 70. The number of the students who pass the passing grade in the pre-test cycle I is 3.84%and in post-test is 11.54%. While in the second cycle, pre-test is 69.23% and post test is 23.07%. The data shows that the result of the T-test in first cycle and second cycle is higher than the T-table. It means that using the RAFT strategy can Improve the Students Writing Ability.

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