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designed and conducted to identify the effect of applying SAVI method on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
B. The Problem of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the problem of the study was formulated as the following:
“Does the application of Somatic Auditory Visual Intellectual SAVI method significantly affect
the students’ achievement in writing Descriptive text?”
C. The Objective of the Study
In line with this problem, the objective of the study was to identify the effect of applying SAVI method on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
D. The Scope of the Study
There are many genres of writing, they are, narrative, descriptive, recount, persuasive, procedure, anecdote, expository, etc. This study was basically limited
to writing descriptive text. This study focused on identifying the effect of applying SAVI method on studen
ts’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
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E. The Significance of the Study
The Findings of the study are expected to be useful both theoretically and practically for
Theoretically:
1. The teachers to improve their theoretical knowledge on teaching writing.
2. Other researchers to conduct for the research on SAVI method.
3. The readers to update their information or knowledge about how to
improve writing skill and as a reference for those who are interested in doing the related study, especially in writing skill.
Practically: 1.
The students to improve their writing achievement especially in writing descriptive text.
2. The teachers improve their ability to conduct a better and interesting
method in teaching writing, especially in teaching writing descriptive text, in order to decrease the problem of the study in the class.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusion
Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that teaching writing skill by using SAVI method significantly affects the students’ achievement in writing
descriptive text. It can be seen from the data which had obtained in the post-test of experimental group were: the total score was 2279 and the mean score was was
75.96, while the data in control group were: the total score was 2069 and the mean score was 68.96. Thus, the students’ score in experimental group was higher than the
students’ score in control group. The calculation of the data in the testing hypothesis showed that t-observed 3.69 was higher than t-table 2.000, it means that the
alternative hypothesis is acceptable.
B. Suggestions
Based on the result of the study, some suggestions are offered to the English teachers that it is wiser to apply SAVI method because it helps the teacher to be more
creative in teaching writing descriptive text. And also it is suggested to the students to apply SAVI method in order to improve their creativity and ability in writing a text
especially in writing descriptive text. It is expected to the readers who are interested
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in dealing with this study so that they have a good understanding to support their study.
Finally, the writer considers that this study still need validation from the next researcher that has the similar topic with this study.
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