The Effect of Draw Label Caption Strategy Toward Student’s Writing Skill in Descriptive Text at Islamic Junior High School 1 Sijunjung

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine whether Draw Label Caption Strategy gave significant effect toward students’ writing skill at class VIII of Islamic Junior High School 1 Sijunjung. The population of this study was students of class VIII in second semester. The population consists of 183 students distributed into six classes. The sample was chosen by using clustering sampling technique. By flipping coin, we had class VIII-3 as experimental and VIII-5 as control class. The experimental class was taught through draw label caption Strategy, while the control class was taught by using common strategy. After the treatments for six meetings by using the same materials and length of times, we administered writing test. The data was analyzed by using statistical software program SPSS and using formula t-test. The result of this research showed that the mean score of students’ writing skill in experimental class was 79.52 higher than those of control class (66.87). It suggests that teaching writing by using Draw Label Caption Strategy gave significant effect towards students’ writing skill. Based on research finding, it is concluded that the use of draw label caption strategy improved students’ writing skill.