An Analysis Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text trough Guided Questions

The title of this research is An Analysis Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text trough Guided Questions (At Eleventh Grade Students of MAN 5 Aceh Besar). The research problem of this research are is there any improvement on students’ writing skill of descriptive text by using guided questions and are students interested in learning descriptive text by using guided questions. The purposes of this research are to find out whether there is improvement students’ writing skill of descriptive text by using guided questions and to find out whether students are interested in learning descriptive text by using guided question. The subject of this research was the students of the second grade of MAN 5 Aceh Besar in the academic year of 2016/2017 consisting of 22 students. The research started on November 6th, 2017 until November 15th, 2017. This research used pre-experimental research with pre-test, post test and questionnaire design. The researcher use two instruments. There were tests including pre-test and post-test and questionnaire. Based on the results of test the writer concludes that the mean score of post-test is higher than pre-test ( 41> 24). It indicates that there is a significant difference in score between the two mean. It can be concluded that the students get improvement in writing descriptive text. While the result of t-test was 2.51, the critical value was 0.05 and degree of freedom (df)= N-1 = 22-1 = 21 is 1.72. The obtained t-score was 2.51. So the t-score was higher than t-table (tscore = 2.51> ttable = 1.72). It means that there was a significant difference of achievement in the test result before and after applying this method. The result of the questionnaire proved that most of the students were interested in using Guided Questions (91 %) in writing descriptive text.