THE INFLUENCE OF USING “SPOT THE DIFFERENCES” TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT COMPARATIVE PARAGRAPH

Abstract

The research title is “ The Influence of ‘Spot the Differences’ Technique on Strudents Ability to Construct Comparative Paragraph.” It is conducted to the second grade of English Educational Study Program in FKIP Pakuan University. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of using ”spot the differences” on students’ ability to construct one of tipe comparative paragraph, it is contrast paragraph. In conducted this research, Quasy experimental method with Pre-test and Post-test  design is used. There are six classes of second grade of English Educational Study Program in FKIP Pakuan University and took two classes as the sample. To get the data, the writer gave pre-test and post-test of writing contrast paragraph. The result of the research shows that t-calculated with degree of freedom 53 is 3.2869 while the t-table with the table of significant 5% (0.05) is 1.67, it means that t-calculated is higher than t-table. Thus, her alternatife hypotesis (Ha) is accepted and the Null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. It can be concluded there is an influence of using “spot the differences” as a teaching technique on students’ ability to construct comparative paragraph. Therefore, teaching writing by using “spot the differences” can be used to improve students’ ability to construct comparative paragraph.