Discussion of the Research Findings

4.10 Discussion of the Research Findings

From the computation done above, it was obtained that the t test was higher than the t table . It meant that guided writing is effective to be used in teaching writing recount text and gives significant result. Therefore, I would like to elaborate them based on the research questions. The first question of this study was “How is writing recount text mastery of the eighth grade students of SMP 1 Tulis?” This question could be answered by referring to the result of the pre-test. From the result, it could be seen that from both classes, many students still get low scores in writing recount text. In addition, the mean score for the experimental group was 67.93 and the control group was 68.23. I concluded that the writing ability of the students at the eighth grade of SMP 1 Tulis was low. The second question was “How could guided writing be applied for teaching writing recount text at eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Tulis in the academic year of 20142015?” The implementation of guided writing for teaching writing recount text was applied in the experimental group. In this research, I did the treatments twice. For the first treatment, I used series of questions in order to attract the students‟ ideas in developing recount text. The last treatment was giving an outline to be completed by the students before they started writing. In implementing those treatments, the students seemed to be interested because by using them, they could write easier. The last question was “How effective does guided writing give contribution to improve the students‟ writing recount text at eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Tulis in the academic year of 20142015?” It was answered by using quantitative approach. The result of the tests showed that the average post-test score of the students who were taught by using guided writing was higher than those who were taught using conventional method. The average of the experimental group before the treatments was 67.93 and after the treatments was 81.89. It is higher than the control group which had average 68.23 before the treatments and obtained average 74.24 after the treatments. Therefore, it could be stated that in this study, guided writing is more effective in teaching writing recount text than the conventional teaching method. This statement is strengthen through the questionaire that was given to the experimental group. 69

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

This chapter presents the important points from the whole discussions in the study. It also suggests some recommendations for the readers and the academic teaching as well as for further researchers.

5.1 Conclusions