THE EFFECT OF GALLERY WALK STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH OF TENTH GRADE AT SMK SWASTA PALAPA BINJAI

Abstrak

The objective of this study was to find out whether there was an effect of gallery walk
strategy on students' writing ability in descriptive paragraph. the research design in this
study was quasi experimental design by using pre-test and post-test non equivalent control
design. this study was conducted with the tenth grade students of SMK Swasta Palpa Binjai
as the population of the study. the sample was taken by random sampling, with 50 students
as the sample of this study. the writer used clas X-AP which consist of 25 students as the
experimental class and X-TSM which consist of 25 students as controlled class.the problem
of this study is the students have difficulties in learning especially descriptive paragraph
and some said that writing is the most difficult process in language. The writer used test as
the instrument of collecting the data. the data collected from this study were analyzed using
t-test formula. The result of this study that was a positive effect of the result students‟
writing descriptive paragraph after using Gallery Walk Strategy. It can be seen from the
data analysis, it was found that value of t-observed (to) was higher than t-table (tt). The
result from calculating the data was t-observation (to = 7,73) and t-table (tt = 1.67) it means,
to is higher than tt in significant level 5%, so the null hypothesis ((Ho) is rejected, and the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. so it can be concluded that Gallery Walk Strategy
on Students‟ Writing Ability in Descriptive Paragraph of Tenth Grade at SMK Swasta
Palapa Binjai.