This research aims at revealing whether: (1) Peer Editing is more effective than Collaborative Writing to teach writing; (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 students’ creativity in teaching writing. This research involves three variables; two independent variables and a dependent variable. The two independent variables are teaching techniques (Peer Editing and Collaborative Writing) and students’ creativity. Meanwhile, the dependent variable is writing skill. The research examines the effect of the two independent variables on the dependent variable.
This research was conducted in the second semester of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Wonogiri in the academic year 2015/2016. The sampling used was cluster random sampling. The samples were two classes which consisted of 23 students of class XI IPS 2 as the experimental class and 23 students of class XI IPS 5 as the control class. The instruments used in this research covered creativity test and writing test. Before being applied, both the creativity and the writing test were tried out to test validity and reliability of the items. The data obtained from the treatment were analyzed using ANOVA 2x2 and Tukey test.
The result of the research reveals that: (1) Peer Editing is more effective than Collaborative Writing to teach writing; (2) the students having high creativity have better writing ability than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques and students’ creativity in teaching writing.
Therefore, it can be concluded that Peer Editing Technique is effective to teach writing for the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Wonogiri in the academic year of 2015/2016. However, in the implementation of the techniques, the teacher must consider about the students’ creativity. The result of this research showed that creativity influences the students’ writing skill. By considering the students’ creativity, the teacher can apply Peer Editing to teach writing.
Keywords: experimental study, writing skill, peer editing, collaborative writing, creativity
