The Effectiveness of Using Story Cricles in Teaching Writing At Seventh Grade of the State Junior School 1 Merlung.

This study aims to determine the effect on the writing achievement of class
VII students of SMP Negeri 1 Merlung. In addition, this study aims to find
significant differences between students who are taught using the Story Circles
technique and students who are not taught using the techniques taught by the
teacher. This research is a quantitative research with a quasi research design.
Subjects The population of this study was 60 students consisting of 30 students in
the experimental class and 30 students in the control class. By using the purposive
sampling method, researchers must find information about the population and
determine research objectives so that the research sample is relevant. Therefore,
researchers chose these two categories as research samples based on several
criteria; they have the same characteristics and abilities in English subject, the
number of students in each class is the same, they are in the same class. The data
analysis used was a written test. The results of this study indicate that the
application of the Story Circles technique has an effect on students' writing
achievement. Independent samples and paired t test results. The average result of
the same group that was taught using Story Circles got a value of 0.000 which can
be seen from the hypothesis criteria if the result is less than 0.05 it means that Ha
is accepted. And the results of the independent sample t-test showed an average
difference of 9.26580 and a significant 2-tailed ≤ 0.05 (0.001 ≤ 0.05). It can be
concluded that there is a significant difference in the effect on students' writing
abilities between students who are taught using the Story Circles technique and
students who are taught with conventional techniques or from teachers at SMPN 1
Merlung.
Keywords: Story Circles Technique, Writing Achievement, Descriptive Text