Pengaruh Metode Tebak Kata terhadap Keterampilan Menulis Puisi Siswa Kelas IV SDN Taman Cibodas Kota Tangerang

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of students' writing skills in Indonesian language subjects for material writing poetry between students who were given the Word Guess Method and conventional method. This research uses quasi-experimental method with Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The population in this study was all fourth grade students of Taman Cibodas Elementary School, with the total number were 62 students. Class IVA with the number of students were 32 students as the experimental class, and class IVB with the number of students were 32 students as the control class. Data collection techniques using test techniques with essay writing skills test instruments consisting of 1 item that has been tested for validity. Hypothesis testing in this study used the t-test. The results showed that there was a significant influence on the method of guessing words on the ability to write poetry for fourth grade students at SDN Taman Cibodas. This is evidenced by testing the posttest hypothesis from the results of the t-test obtained t_count=4.47 and t_table=2.00. Thus, this can be interpreted that the writing skills using the word guessing method are higher than using conventional learning methods.