THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GUIDED QUESTIONS TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ REPORT TEXT WRITING ABILITY (A Quasi-Experimental Research at the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 3 Kota Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019)

This study aimed at finding out whether the students taught by Guided Questions
technique achieve significantly higher score than those who were taught by
conventional method at grade X of SMAN 3 Kota Bengkulu. This study employed
a quasi experimental research design. The sample of this study is the first grade
students of SMAN 3 Kota Bengkulu consisting of 60 students who divided into
two classes, experiment and control class. The instrument employed in this
research was writing test which was aimed at measuring students‟ writing ability.
The finding of this research showed that the students taught by guided question
achieve significantly higher score than those who were taught by conventional
method at grade X of SMAN 3 Kota Bengkulu with the sig. (2-tailed) of post-test
was 0.000 which was less than 0.05 with t=-7.779. The students taught by guided
question technique could achieve significantly higher score than those who were
taught by conventional method at grade X of SMAN 3 Kota Bengkulu. It can be
seen that the students‟ writing ability in experiment class showed a significant
difference of students‟ score after treated by using guided question technique.
While in control group, the students‟ writing score did not show a significant
difference between pre-and post-test result. It means that guided question
technique was effective to be applied in teaching writing report text.
Key words: Writing Ability, Guided Question Technique