Improving students' writing skill for an invitation text using RAFT strategy in MTs Nurul Huda

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Hindasah, Aulia (2018) Improving students' writing skill for an invitation text using RAFT strategy in MTs Nurul Huda. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

One of English skills which have to be mastered by students is writing. It is as a tool to transfer ideas in written form. Meanwhile, most of students lack interest in writing activity because there are some processes and rules which have to be applied. The use of strategy of writing can improve the skill itself. Therefore, RAFT strategy is needed to motivate students to be able to build up ideas in writing invitation text. The objectives of the research are to know and to find out whether there is improvement in students’ writing skill of an invitation text using RAFT strategy and the teacher problems faced during the implementation of this strategy. The method used in this study was Experimental method that focus on pre-experimental design with one group Pretest-Postest design. The data were gathered through field notes, test, and interview. The results of the study showed that by doing RAFT strategy, the students’ skill in writing invitation text improved. The sample group of this research was 29 students at VIII-A1 class. These students were given pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The result of the test were analysed by using Paired Sample T-test on SPSS 17.0. The result showed that mean score in pre-test was 63.41 (SD = 11.274) and in post-test was 81.03 (SD = 9.652). The number showed that post-test score was higher than pre-test score with Cohen value was 1.679, (strong effect) which means that RAFT strategy gives strong effect on students’ writing skill of invitation text. In addition, there are two problems faced by teacher during implementation of RAFT strategy; a little bit overstretched to apply the strategy and the difficulties of asking the students to concentrate. Finally, it can be concluded that role, audience, format and topic (RAFT) strategy is helpful to improve students writing invitation text skill. This strategy also encourages students to write as well as promotes students creativity in thinking and motivation.