ABSTRACT
DEFENDS: AStrategy to Teach Writing Skill viewed from Students’ Creativity. A Thesis. First Consultant: Dr. Sumardi, M.Hum; Second Consultant: Dr. Slamet Supriyadi, M.Pd. English Education Department, Graduate School, Sebelas Maret University.The main objective of this research isto know whether: (1) DEFENDSis more effective than Pairs Checkto teach writing tothe eleventhgrade students of a high school in Purbalingga; (2) the students having high creativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity for the eleventh grade students of a high school in Purbalingga; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching strategies used to teach writing andstudents’ creativity for the eleventh grade students of a high school in Purbalingga.This experimental research was conducted at a high school in Purbalinggain the academic yearof2018/2019. The sampling usedin this research was cluster randomsampling. The sample of this research was 60 students including 30students of experimental class and 30students of control class. Each class was divided into high and low levels of creativity. To collect thedata, there were two instruments used in this research namely writing test and verbal creativity test. Writing test was used to find out students’ writing skill, while verbal creativity was conducted to know students’ creativity levels. After treatment was given to both classes in eight meetings, the researcher conducted post test of writing test to get the data. The data were analyzed by using 2x2 Multifactor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test. Based on the summary of multifactor analysis of variance, it can be concluded that:(1) DEFENDSstrategy is more effective than Pairs Checkto teach writing; (2) students having high creativity have better writingskillthan those having low creativity;and(3) there is an interaction between teaching strategies and creativity to teach writing. It means that the use of DEFENDSstrategy is effective to teach writing for the eleventh grade students of a high school in Purbalingga. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to apply DEFENDSstrategy in writing activity, to promote an effective teaching writing skill. The students are suggested to apply DEFENDSstrategy in writing so that they can achieve the most optimum writing skill. For other researcherswho intend to conduct similar research aboutthe effectiveness of DEFENDSstrategy to teach writing, the result of this research can be useful as an additional reference.Keywords: creativity, DEFENDS strategy, writing skill.
Keywords: DEFENDS strategy; Students Creativity; Creative students; Experimental design.
