or control group did three types of activity including pre – test, treatment, and post – test. But before doing those three types of activity to the experimental and
control group, the writer gave try out to another class that did not belong to both groups.
3.7.1 Try Out
Before the test was used as an instrument to collect the data, it had been tried out first to the students of another class. After the result of the tried- out was
gained, the analysis was made. If the result of try out shows good result, it means that the instrument can be applied to collect data from both groups.
3.7.2 Pre – Test
Pre-test is the test that is held before giving the treatment in order to find out the prior knowledge or ability or skill of the test takers before the treatment is
given. In this test, the students in both groups were given same test and same topic in order to know their basic competence in writing narrative text. The students
were given a pre – test to write narrative text by using same topic in both group either experimental or control group. The topic given to the students was “love”.
The students were asked to write a narrative text based on the topic given and submitted after done it.
3.7.3 Treatment
After conducting pre – test for experimental and control group, some treatments were given to improve students’ writing competence of narrative text.
In this case, the experimental group was given treatment by using authentic song lyrics in order to write narrative text. Meanwhile, the control group was given
treatment by using sequence of pictures to write narrative text. In practice, the control group was given pictures equipped with a helper sentence in each picture
to make easier the students in identifying the characters on the story. Both of them were given the same topic in the treatment. In this activity, the students were
explained about narrative text and language features too.
3.7.4 Post – Test
Post – test was conducted to measure the students’ writing competence of narrative text after they got treatment. The test included on the post – test was
almost same as the pre – test, however, there was a media in each group included on the post – test to help students write narrative text. Authentic song lyric was
given to help students in experimental group to write narrative text. Meanwhile, sequence of pictures was given to help students in control group to write narrative
text. The post-test scores were compared to find out significant different between both groups.
3.7.5 Scoring System
Scoring is a way to obtain quantitative information from each student. There are many analytic scorings which are conducted by researchers. In
facilitating to analyze the students’ test result in writing narrative text of the both groups, i.e. the experimental and the control group, the writer limited only to the
analytic scale as stated by Brown and Bailey 1984:39-41 as quoted by Brown 2004:244. This technique focuses on the five categories in scoring students
composition of narrative text, they are; organization, logical developments of
