Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This study entitled teaching analytical exposition through modeling technique is intended to figure out whether modeling technique improves students' ability in writing analytical essay. this study used experimental quantitative method. the population of this study was the second grade students of sma 5 darussalam. random sampling was used to determine sample for this study. theey are; experimental group (eg) and control group (cg). to collect the data, both of the groups were given the pre and post tests. the result of the test was analyzed by using the t-tests. it was used to know whether there was a significant difference of the scores between the two groups. with a 0.05 and degree of freedom 38, it was found that eg gave (27.75) in pre test and (32.15) in post test. whereas, cg gave (19.85) for pre test and (34.05) in the post test. it means that in the pre test experimental group had a better score than that in control group but in post test control group had better score of experimental group. based on the result, the null hypothesis is accepted in that there is no significant difference between modeling technique and traditional method in teaching writing. however, this study yielded small contribution in the particular components of writing like organization, ideas development, mechanics and grammar to the students of sma 5 darussalam, banda aceh. finally, because this research does not reach a conclusive summary,therefore, the researcher hopes that the reader will be interested in doing further research related to this problem.