ABSTRAK
Keterampilan menulis teks berita merupakan salah satu kompetensi
menulis yang penting untuk dikuasai siswa, karena pada semester II untuk kelas
VIII pada jenjang Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP), terdapat kompetensi dasar
(KD) pada Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) yang mengharuskan
siswa menulis teks berita sebagai salah satu ketuntasan menempuh mata pelajaran
Bahasa Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji: ada tidaknya
hubungan antara kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan keterampilan menulis teks
berita; antara motivasi menulis dan keterampilan menulis teks berita; serta antara
kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan motivasi menulis secara bersama-sama
dengan keterampilan menulis teks berita.
Pelaksanaan penelitian ini selama enam bulan dari Juli sampai dengan
Desember 2015. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dengan
pendekatan survei korelasional. Populasi mencakup semua siswa kelas VIII SMP
Negeri di Kota Madiun, Provinsi Jawa Timur tahun pelajaran 2015/2016 yang
berjumlah 14 sekolah negeri. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 165 siswa.
Penentuan jumlah sampel dilakukan dengan teknik stratified sampling, dan cluster
random sampling. Pengumpulan data keterampilan menulis teks berita
menggunakan tes menulis, kemampuan penalaran berbahasa menggunakan
objektif test, dan motivasi menulis dengan angket. Ketiga variabel penelitian
tersebut dianalisis menggunakan regresi korelasi sederhana maupun ganda.
Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: (1) ada hubungan positif antara
kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan keterampilan menulis teks berita (ry.1=0,61).
Hal ini signifikan karena hasil uji t menunjukan t1 = 9,83 > tt = 1,645 dengan
kontribusi 37,21%; (2) ada hubungan positif antara motivasi menulis dan
keterampilan menulis teks berita (ry.2 = 0,48). Hal ini signifikan karena hasil uji t
menunjukan t2 = 6,98 > tt = 1,645 dengan kontribusi 23,04%; dan (3) ada
hubungan positif antara kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan motivasi menulis
secara bersama-sama dengan keterampilan menulis teks berita (Ry.12 = 0,69). Hal
ini signifikan karena hasil uji F menunjukan Fo= 73,61 > Ft = 3,05 dengan
kontribusi 47,61%. Kontribusi kemampuan penalaran berbahasa lebih besar dari
motivasi menulis. Hal tersebut dikarenakan kemampuan penalaran berbahasa
merupakan kemampuan berpikir seseorang secara logis, kritis, dan sistematis.
Kemampuan berpikir yang demikian dapat membantu siswa menulis teks berita
dengan kata-kata, susunan kalimat dan paragraf serta organisasi isi secara runtut
dan logis.
Kata kunci: kemampuan penalaran berbahasa, motivasi menulis, keterampilan
menulis teks berita.
ABSTRACT
Writing news text skill is one of the important writing competence for
students mastered, because in the second semester for the eighth grade of junior
high school, there is a basic competence in education unit level curriculum
(KTSP) which requires students to write news text as one of completeness taking
Indonesian lesson. The objective of this research is to investigate the correlation
between reasoning to speak ability and writing news text skill or not; the
correlation between writing motivation and writing news text skills or not; and the
correlation between reasoning to speak ability and writing motivation together
with writing news text skills or not.
This study is done for that is six months from July to Desember 2015. This
study uses quantitative methods correlational survey approach. Population
involves all the eighth of Junior High State School students in Madiun, East Java
in the school year 2015/2016 that amounts 14 state school. Samples in this study
are 165 students. Determination of the sum of the samples is done by stratified
sampling technique, and cluster random sampling. The collection of data in
writing news text skills uses written test, the reasoning to speak ability uses
objective test, and writing motivation uses questionnaire. The three of that study
variables are analyzed using simple and double regression correlation.
The results of this study show that: (1) there is a positive correlation
between reasoning to speak ability and writing news text skills as indicated by the
value of ry.1 = 0,61, and this is significant as the result of the t test shows that the
value of t1 = 9,83 is greater than that of ttable = 1,645 with the contribution of
37,21%; (2) there is a positive correlation between writing motivation and writing
news text skills as shown by the value of ry.2 = 0,48, and this is significant for the
result of the t test shows that the value of t2 = 6,98 is greater than ttable = 1,645
with the contribution of 23,04%; and (3) there is a positive correlation between
reasoning to speak ability and writing motivation together with writing news text
skills by the value of Ry.12 = 0,69, and this is significant as the value of Fcount 73,61
is greater than that of Ft = 3,05 with the contribution of 47,61%. The contribution
of reasoning to speak ability is greater than writing motivation. It happens because
reasoning to speak ability is a person's ability in thinking logically, critically, &
systematically. This kind of thinking ability could help students to write news text
by using words, sentence and paragraph structures, and content organization
coherently and logically.
Keywords: reasoning to speak ability, writing motivation, writing news text skill