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INTRODUCTION
Language
is
a
means
of
communication
that
is,
transmitting
information, ideas or feeling from one
person to another. English is one of the
languages which are used in all parts of the
world and almost all countries in the world
use it either as their first, second or foreign
language. As an international language,
English has become an important subject to
be mastered by Indonesian students, either
for communicative purposes or for
academic purposes. In teaching English,
there are four language competencies; such
as:
listening competency, reading
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The population of this research
consisted of 240 students in which the
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
researcher used 50 samples in two classes
The object of this research was the
by using the random sampling.
writing competency as the result of
The research design was post-test
treatment between focused free writing and
only static group comparison design. The
unfocused free writing by considering the
design was about comparing two groups
writing competency. The data of the
under the study without giving a pre-test.
research were classified into six groups
The prior students writing competency was
such as: 1) general writing score of focused
not measured, therefore; the data were only
free writing group, 2) general writing of
gained from administering a post-test. This
unfocused free writing group, 3) writing
design was used to find out the comparison
score of focused free writing group on
between focused free writing and
descriptive text, 4) writing score of focused
unfocused free writing strategy on students
free writing group on narrative text, 5)
writing competency based on two different
writing score of unfocused free writing
types of texts (descriptive and narrative).
gropu on descriptive text, 6) writing score of
The instruments that were used to
unfocused free writing on narrative text. The
collect the data were in the form of writing
data result of post test of writing
assessment test which was consisted of
assessment test in each group based on
two different post-test based on the text
text types can be showed as follows:
types.
Table 1. Summary of the Students' Writing Score based on Text types
Statistic
Mean
Median
Mode
Std.
Deviation
Variance
Range
Minimum
Maximu
m
N
Group
A1
78.60
78.67
86.00
A2
65.68
64.00
61.00
A1B1
80.16
77.43
76.00
A1B2
77.04
80.00
66.00
A2B1
68.40
66.00
60.00
A2B2
62.96
62.92
62.00
7.57
6.07
7.20
9.11
8.34
5.77
57.33
24.00
67.00
36.89
27.00
52.00
51.97
26.00
70.00
83.04
24.00
64.00
69.67
26.00
60.00
33.37
34.00
42.00
91.00
79.00
96.00
88.00
86.00
76.00
25
25
25
25
25
25
2086.580
Within Groups
2261.440
48
47.113
Total
4348.020
49
44.289
.000
369.920
369.920
Within Groups
2472.960
48
51.520
Total
2842.880
49
7.180
.057