Registration Number:16120280. The Effect of Team Games Tournament Technique on The Teaching Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

This thesis focused on finding out the effect of team games tournament technique on the teaching writing descriptive text. This research is aimed to improve the student’s writing skill through Teams Games Tournament (TGT) method. This research purpose to improve students ability in writing descriptive text, in this study the researcher use team games tournament technique in teaching writing descriptive text. The researcher used experimental quantitative method. The source of the data was taken from student score in Smp Swasta Hkbp Ambarita, the instrument of collecting data writing test. The objectives of this research is to describe about the process of teaching writing by using TGT, to find out whether TGT method can improve the students’ writing skill and to know the significant improvement using TGT method to the students’ writing skill. This research was conducted at the grade students of Smp Swasta Hkbp Ambarita,The data was gathered through the evaluation test score, the observation note, and documentation study. The result of the study shows that the use of TGT method can improve students’ writing skill. This thesis was conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental group and control group.The data were analyzed by using t-test.The calculation shown that t-observed (4,6940) was higher than t-table (1,7011) at the level significance ()0,05 with degree of freedom(df)28.This mean this research has been completed and shows that TGT can improve the students’ writing skill, especially in descriptive text. This method can help the students to understand the material easily.