THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) ON STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS OF PROCEDURE TEXT AT EIGHT GRADE MTS HIFZHIL QUR’AN ISLAMIC CENTER MEDAN

Abstract

The objective of the research is to find out whether the use of contextual teaching and learning approach would be able to improve students’ writing ability in procedure text of MTs Hifzhil Qur’an Islamic Center Medan. There are several problem face by students in having a good writing skill, namely a limited vocabulary, the difficulty of moving ideas into paper and confused to express the idea own on the worksheet. One of the reason as causes of this obstacle was the teaching technique was used by teacher in learning writing. So, the researcher tried to implement some techniques to improve writing skill. It was used in writing procedure text. The technique was Contextual Teaching and Learning technique (CTL). Contextual teaching and learning is a technique of teaching that helps teachers connect the subject matter content with real world situations and motivates students to make connections between knowledge and its application in their real lives. This research used experimental method which was done in three procedure. Each procedure consists of pre-test, treatment and post-test. The sample divided into two groups, 30 students as experimental group was taken from VIII-3 and 30 students as control group was taken from VIII-8. In collecting the data, the researcher used test (pre-test and post-test), observation and documentation. The instrument of this research was students’ worksheet of writing procedure text in paragraph. The results of this research indicated that the Contextual Teaching and Learning technique as an technique that had positive effect on students' writing abilities in writing procedure text of MTs Hifzhil Qur’an Islamic Center Medan. This can be proven based on the results Based on t-table with df 60 (n + n – 2 = 30 + 30 – 2 = 58) at t-critical 0.05 it’s obtained 1.666. If compared the value of to and tt, so it shown that the value of t-observed is bigger than the value of t-table or 5.99> 1.666. It means that the hypothesis alternative was accepted and hypothesis null was rejected.