This research is aimed to find whether: (1) Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)
is more effective than Direct Method to teach writing to the eighth grade students of SMP N 1
Prambanan Klaten in the Academic Year of 2015/2016; (2) the eighth grade students of SMP N 1
Prambanan Klaten who having high creativity have better writing skill than those having low
creativity; and (3) there is interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity to teach
writing.
This research was an experimental research conducted at SMP N 1 Prambanan Klaten in
the Academic Year of 2015/2016. The population of the research was the eighth grade students
of SMP N 1 Prambanan Klaten in the Academic Year of 2015/2016. The samples were two
classes consisting 48 students were taken by using cluster random sampling. Each class consisted
24 students of experimental class taught using Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)
and 24 students of control class taught using Direct Method. The data collection was done by
giving creativity test and writing test after eight treatments of each groups. The data analysis was
done by applying descriptive and inferential statistics (ANOVA and Tukey HSD test) to test the
research hyphothesis.
The research findings are: (1) Self- Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is more
effective than Direct Method to teach writing to the eighth grade students of SMP N 1
Prambanan Klaten; (2) the students having high creativity have better writing skill than those
having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’
creativity in teaching writing.
The findings imply that to teach students who have high creativity, SRSD is more
effective than Direct Method. For the students who have low creativity, both SRSD and Direct
Method have the same effect on the students’ writing skill. In addition, creativity is one of the
factor influencing students’ writing skill. The students having high creativity have better writing
skill than those having low creativity.
Keywords: creativity, Direct Method, experimental research, SRSD, writing skill