The Effect of Guided Writing on Students Writing Performance (A Case Study)

This experimental study aimed to investigate the effect of the Guided Writing technique on the students' at SMPN 3 Banda Aceh writing performance and to know the students' perception of the Guided Writing technique in improving their writing performance. In selecting the participants of this study, the quasi-experimental research used. The samples were the students of class VIII-1 served as the control class and VIII-3 served as the experimental class. In collecting the data, the researcher used the tests and the questionnaire. The tests used to know the students' writing performance after implementing the Guided Writing technique. Moreover, the questionnaire used to identify the students' perception of Guided Writing techniques in improving their writing performance. The results showed that using the Guided Writing technique increased the students' writing performance that proven by the improvement of the mean score of the students' in the experimental class which is higher than the control class. The mean score in the experimental class increased from 57.67 to 76.96, while that of the control class from 61.27 to 66.36. Besides, the result of the questionnaire showed the students perceived positively regarding the implementation of the Guided Writing technique in the class. 93% of the students agreed that they are pleased to learn writing recount text by using the Guided Writing technique, and 82% of the students agreed that using the Guided Writing technique helped the students improved their ability in writing recount text.