4.1.3 Treatment on the Control Group
The treatment was conducted on 5, 7, 12, 14, and 19 January 2011 for the class X 5 as the control group. This class consisted of 37 students. The students were
taught by using the conventional method. Below is the activities of the control group.
The Control class began on Wednesday, 5 January 2011. The material which was given at the beginning of the lesson was the definition of the narrative
story. The brief definition of narrative text was given, text that consists of either real or imaginative sequences of events, presented in the past form, which is
aimed to entertain the readers. The students were listened to the writer ’s definition
carefully. Then, the writer gave the characteristics of the narrative text which was covers five items, specific often individual participants with defined identities,
major participants are human or sometimes animals with human characteristics, normally used past tense, many linking verbs to do with time, dialogue often
included during which the tense may change to the present or future, descriptive language was chosen to enhance and develop the story. And it continued to the
generic structures of the narrative text that was divided into five elements namely: introduction orientation, events, next events complication, last event
resolution and conclusion re-orientation. The students paid attention to the writer
’s explanation while made a note on their book. After that the students were given the example of the narrative text entitled Cinderella while the writer gave
the types of the narrative text.
The materials that were given in the second meeting, Friday, 7 January 2011, were the used of past tense in the narrative text. Most of the students were
still difficult in constructing sentences using past tense. The writer gave explanation about the definition and the pattern of the past tense. Then, the
students were asked to make a simple sentence using past tense. The Robin Hood story was given after the students finished their work. The students analyzed and
discussed the used of past tense in given story together. On Wednesday, 12 January 2011, the class continued with another
example of narrative text entitled Cinderella. After the narrative texts were given, the writer asked the students to analyze the characteristic of the given narrative
text with their group which was consisted of five students. Each group presented their work in front of the class and discussed it together. And the last section was
for making the similar story based on their knowledge. The next meeting was conducted on Friday, 14 January 2011. In this
session, the students were asked to present their work one by one in front of the class. Then the other students gave their comment about their friends
’ work. The next step in this class was discussing the common errors that were made by the
students. The main materials on the last meeting on Wednesday, 19 January 2011,
were made a good narrative text and its discussion. The students were asked to make a good narrative text based on their knowledge, then discussed it together.
4.2 Significant Difference between the Result of the Pre-test and Post-test The answer for The Second Problem
The first step before the experiment was conducted, the students were given a writing pre-test. After the experiment, the students were given a post-test. The
scores of the pre-test and the post-test were obtained from five components of writing which consist of organization, content, grammar, punctuation and style.
The range of each component score was 20. The students ’ score was gotten from
the sum of the total score of those five components. The students ’ score of the
experimental group and the control group can be seen in Appendices 8 and 9.
4.2.1 Pretest Finding
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