THE ROLE OF GUIDED TASK ON INCREASING STUDENTS ABILITY IN PARAGRAPH WRITING AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMP 1 UNAAHA

Abstract

As one of the skills in learning English, writing is also very important for students. There are several problems faced by students in writing such as in organizing ideas, grammar, and vocabulary. To deal with this general problem, there must be several ways and solutions to improve students' writing skills, especially in paragraph writing through the available methods, in this case the researcher uses the Guided Writing Strategy to improve writing skills. The design of this research is quantitative research with an experimental class approach that involves three stages, the first stage pre-test then in the second stage, namely giving the treatment and at the last meeting in the class the researcher will give a post-test which is carried out after students get treatment, this is done to see how far the development of students paragraph writing after getting treatment using the role of the guided task—problem of this research. The research is said to be successful if the value of significance (2-tailed) is 0.00 < 0.05. This means that the researcher alternative hypothesis is accepted. The average score of students in the pre-test is 37.50 to 65.36 in post-test. it can be concluded that the use of the Guided Writing Strategy can improve the writing skills of VIIID grade students of SMP NEGERI 1 UNAAHA for the 2022/2023 academic year.