The Effect of Discovery Learning Method to The Students’ Ability Writing Descriptive Text Grade X at SMAN 1 Tanjung Tiram

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effect of discovery learning method to the writing ability of X grade high school students. This research is a quantitative research using experimental method. The population in this study were students of class X SMA NI Tanjung Tiram which totaled 60 students. Determination of the sample used random sampling technique. Based on this technique, class X-A was obtained as an experimental class consisting of 30 students and class X-B as a control class consisting of 30 students. Data collection techniques using tests, namely post-test. The data collection process by assigning students to work on description questions. Before analyzing the data, a normality test was first carried out. The results showed that there was a difference in the ability to write description questions of class students using the discovery learning method, and without using Discovery learning. The difference was shown by the results of the t-test, namely tcount=11.037, ttable 1.706, so the criteria for testing the hypothesis of this study are tcount> ttable, then the hypothesis value (HO) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. This proves that there is a positive effect of the discovery learning method than without the discovery learning learning method to the writing ability of class X students of SMA NI Tanjung Tiram in the 2022/2023 academic year.