The Effect of Four Square Method towards Writing Skill of The Tenth Grade Students of Smk Gamaliel 1 Madiun in Academic Year of 2021/2022
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Writing is one of the most important English skills to master but is quite challenging for students. Therefore, several methods to teach writing have been developed by researchers to help students overcome the difficulty of writing. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether the students who are treated by using Four Square method have better writing skills than the students who are treated by conventional teaching. The method of this research was a quantitative method and a quasi-experimental design. The population in this research was students in tenth grade in SMK Gamaliel 1 Madiun, specifically X TPM A and X TPM B. The data was collected by using writing tests about descriptive text. The researcher used SPSS version 16 and Independent Sample T-test to analyze students’ scores. The research finding showed that the use of the Four Square method had an effect on students' writing ability. Students in the experimental class have shown to have better writing scores, as evidenced by the mean score of 74.17 in the control class and 83.30 in the experimental class. The data analysis result shows that the sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000 (< 0.05) so, H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. It indicated that there was a significant difference in the students’ writing skills who are treated by using the four square method and those treated by conventional teaching. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that the use of Four Square method was effective in teaching writing descriptive text.
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