The effectiveness of dialogue journal in teaching writing viewed from students’ creativity (An Experimental Study at SMA Negeri 1 Karanganon Klaten in the 2012/2013 Academic Year)

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Lia Ardiana Safitri - S891108060 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

This research is aimed at finding out whether: (1) dialogue journal is more effective than guided writing in teaching writing for the first semester students of the third grade science students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganom Klaten in the 2012/2013 Academic Year; (2) the third grade science students who have high creativity have better writing skill that those who have low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques and students‟ creativity to teach writing. The method which was employed in this research was an experimental study. The population of the research was the third grade science students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganom Klaten in the 2012/2013 academic year. The two samples were taken by using cluster random sampling technique. The sample in this research was two classes; one class (XII IPA 1) consisting of 40 students as the experimental class and one class (XII IPA 3) consisting of 40 students as the control class. The research instruments consist of an adapted Munandar‟s verbal creativity and writing test about discussion essay which is designed by the researcher. In collecting the data, the researcher made some steps: (1) conducting creativity test to know the students‟ degree of creativity; (2) applying teaching techniques to the students in eight meetings; (3) giving post test to the students; and (4) analyzing the students‟ writing skills. The data were obtained from creativity and writing test. They were analyzed in the terms of their frequency distribution, normality of the sample distribution, and the data homogeneity and then used ANOVA test (Multifactor Analysis and Variance) and TUKEY test to test the research hypotheses. The result of the research findings leads to the conclusion that: (1) dialogue journal is more effective than guided writing in teaching writing in the third grade science students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganom Klaten in 2012/2013 academic year; (2) the students having high creativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques and the students‟ creativity to teach writing. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the use of dialogue journal is effective to teach writing for the third grade science students at SMA Negeri 1 Karanganom Klaten in the 2012/2013 academic year. Therefore, it is recommended that: (1) teachers apply dialogue journal to teach writing; (2) teachers give information to the students to enrich insight and get better learning to improve their writing skill; and (3) future researchers can use this research as a starting point and also as a reference for the future research. Keywords: Writing, Dialogue Journal, Guided Writing, Creativity