IMPROVINGWRITING SKILL BY USING FREE WRITING TECHNIQUE

This research aimedat finding out whetherthe use of free writing technique could improve students’ writing skill especiallyin writing descriptive paragraph or not. The quasi-experimental research design was applied in this research.This research was conducted at SMPNegeri 1 Pasangkayu. The population was the eighth grade students, and the sample was class VIIIB as experimental class and VIIIC as control class. The instrument of data collection was a test which was administered twice called pre-test and post-test. The result of data analysis showed that the t-counted (7.49) was greater than the t-table (2.021) by applying 0.05 level of significance and the degree of freedom (df) was 40. In conclusion, the use of free writing technique can improve the students’writing skill particularly in writingdescriptive paragraph. Keywords : Improving; Writing Skill; Descriptive; Paragraph;Free Writing.