The Effectiveness of Interactive Writing Strategy to Teach Writing Skill Viewed from Students’ Creativity (An Experimental Study at SMA Negeri I Pacitan, 2011 /2012 )

Oleh :
Umi Ma’tum - S891008099 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The main objectives of the research are to know whether: (1) there is difference in writing competence between the students taught using interactive writing strategy and the students taught using controlled writing strategy; (2) there is difference in writing competence of the students having high creativity and those having low creativity; (3) there is an interaction between teaching strategy and creativity in term of writing skill. The Experimental method was employed in this research. The population of the research was the eleventh year students of SMA Negeri I Pacitan In 2011/2012 in academic Year. The sampling technique used was Cluster random sampling. The sample in the research was 60 students covering 30 students of XI Science 4 as control group and 30 students of XI science 5 as experimental group. The research instruments consist of adapted Munandar’s Verbal Creativity Test and writing test about Hortatory Exposition text which was designed by the researcher. Before the instruments were used, a try out was done to know the validity and reliability of the instrument. After treatment was given in twelve meetings, the researcher conducted a post-test to get the research data. Having got research data, the researcher analyzed the data in terms of their frequency distribution, normality of the sample distribution, and data homogeneity. Then, researcher used ANOVA test (multifactor analysis of variance) and TUKEY test to test the research hypotheses. Referring to the summary of multifactor analysis of variance, it can be concluded that: (1) Interactive writing is more effective than controlled writing in teaching writing; (2) Students having high creativity have higher achievement in writing skill than the students having low creativity; and (3) There in an interaction between teaching strategies and students’ creativity in teaching writing. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that teaching writing using interactive writing is more effective for the eleventh year students of SMA Negeri I Pacitan. To achieve the most optimum writing achievement, therefore it is recommended that teachers should apply interactive writing in teaching writing because interactive writing develops the students’ creativity in giving fresh ideas spontaneously to response and continue others’ idea. Keywords: Interactive Writing, Controlled Writing, Creativity, Hortatory Exposition