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

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find out whether there was an effect of gallery walkstrategy on students' writing ability in descriptive paragraph. the research design in thisstudy was quasi experimental design by using pre-test and post-test non equivalent controldesign. this study was conducted with the tenth grade students of SMK Swasta Palpa Binjaias the population of the study. the sample was taken by random sampling, with 50 studentsas the sample of this study. the writer used clas X-AP which consist of 25 students as theexperimental class and X-TSM which consist of 25 students as controlled class.the problemof this study is the students have difficulties in learning especially descriptive paragraphand some said that writing is the most difficult process in language. The writer used test asthe instrument of collecting the data. the data collected from this study were analyzed usingt-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 thedata analysis, it was found that value of t-observed (to) was higher than t-table (tt). Theresult 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 thealternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. so it can be concluded that Gallery Walk Strategyon Students‟ Writing Ability in Descriptive Paragraph of Tenth Grade at SMK SwastaPalapa Binjai.