THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DICTOGLOSS STORYTELLING IN IMPROVING 8th GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY

Abstract

This study investigates the implementation of Dictogloss Storytelling in 8^th grade english classroom. It aims to see its contribution to the improvement of students’ writing performance in writing narrative texts. The study used experimental study as quantitative strand. It involved a class consisting of 19 students as the experimental group. The data were obtained from three meetings of teaching program.Hypothesis testing revealed that the post-test score (M = 64.00 , SD = 10.41) was significantly higher than pre-test score (M = 52.95, SD = 8.47), in t(18) = -10.849, p < .05, r² = .867 in 2-tailed direction. The effect size was also considered as large (r²>.25), which indicated that the intervention had a large impact to the students’ score. The extent to which the students had significant improvement in their narrative writing is further explored.