Elfiana Sari (2012) THE EFFECT OF USING KNOWLEDGE CHART STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING REPORT PARAGRAPH AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA YKPP DUMAI. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Based on the school based curriculum (KTSP), writing is as one of English skills that must be taught and learned in senior high school. SMA YKPP Dumai is one of schools that used it as a guide in teaching learning process. After doing preliminary observation there, some of students of the second year still had low ability in their writing. The researcher interpreted that they had low ability in writing were indicated that they had lack of ideas in expressing their writing, lack on using capital latter, less on vocabulary mastery, and incorrect spelling in writing. Thus, the researcher interested in conducting the research entitled “The Effect of Using Knowledge Chart Strategy toward Students’ Ability in Writing Report Paragraph at the second Year Students of SMA YKPP Dumai”. The main focus of this research was to find out a significant effect of using Knowledge Chart strategy toward students’ ability in writing report paragraph at the second year of SMA YKPP Dumai. The type research was quasi-experimental research which the researcher could not create a new participant groups for this experiment. The subject of this research was the second year students of SMA YKPP Dumai. In this research, the researcher took two classes; experimental and control class from the four classes of science. There were 68 students as the sample from 270 students of population by using clustering sample randomly based on group. In collecting the data, the researcher used test. The test used was writing test. In analyzing the data, the researcher used regression formula operated by SPSS 16. Finally, the research found that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. Besides, it can be proved from the mean score of students’ writing ability of post-test that at experimental was higher than at control class. Furthermore, the category of students’ improvement in writing ability at the experimental class was middle, while in control class was low. In conclusion, there is a significance effect of using Knowledge Chart strategy toward students’ ability in writing report paragraph at the second year students of SMA YKPP Dumai.

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