The Effect of Word Webbing on Students’ Ability in Writing News Item

Abstract

This article is about the effect ofword webbing on students’ ability in writing news item at grade X in SMA Kartika 1-4 Pematangsiantar. The object of this research is to find out the effect ofword webbing on students’ ability in writing news item at grade X in SMA Kartika 1-4 Pematangsiantar. This research is designed as a quantitative research. The researcher used two classes in getting the data, first class X IS 2 as Experimental Group and class X IA 1 as Control Group. Experimental group is used to find the effect of word webbing technique to the students ability in writing news item text. The number of sample in this research was 50 students. In answering the problems, the researcher had analyzed the data to get the result what word webbing technique has the effect to the students’ ability in writing news item text or not. After the writer analyzed the data, the writer got the result in T-test and got 4.1. From the result of T-test, it shows that by using word webbing technique is more significant to the students’ ability in writing news item text than using conventional technique.