Using Guided-Questions in Practice and Progress to Improve Students’ Writing Ability

This research is aimed of finding out the use of Guided-Question in Practice and Progress book in learning writing and to finding out the students perceptions in learning writing by using guided question. The subject of this research was the students of the second grade of SMP Negeri 1 Aceh Besar in the academic year of 2019/2020 consisting of 26 students. This research used pre-experimental research with pre-test and post-test design as well as questionnaire design.
The results show that guided-questions improved students writing ability. It is proved in the scores of the students pre-test and post-test, where the mean of the pre-test scores was 65.5 and 71.1 for that of the post-test. The t-test also showed the significant improvement of students writing scores, that is the t-score is higher than t-table (t-score = 3.94> t-table = 1.70). It indicates that there is a significant difference between the pre and post test scores of the students. It can be concluded that the students get improvement in learning writing through Guided-Questions in Practice and Progress book. The result of the questionnaire proved that most of the students (85%) were interested in learning by using guided-questions in writing class.