A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE USE OF BLOCK STYLE AND POINT BY POINT METHOD ON WRITING ABILITY

Abstract

The  main aim of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference between students’ writing ability on using block style method and students’ writing ability on using point by point method. The design of this research is a causal-comparative study that focusing on quantitative research. The subject of this research was level 2 students’ of language center UIN Suska Riau. The object of this research was comparing between using block style and point by point method on students’ writing ability. The sample was two classes; Experiment class (34 students) and compare class (34 students). The total sample was 78 students by using cluster sampling. The test and questionnaire  were used to collect the data and data was anlyzed by using compare means and t-test by using SPSS 20.0. the last finding of this research was found that there was a signifficant difference on students’ writing ability between using block style and point by point method. It shown on comparing the mean score. Block style method was 60.7353 and point by point method was 78.3824. And the hyphothesis testing was show the result of post T-test 11.823, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000. if we act to null hypothesis (H_o) that is 0.05, it  means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of H_o. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It  means that there is a significant difference between The Use of  Block Style Method and Point by Point Method  on The Students’ Writing Ability at Language Center of UIN Suska Riau. At last,  it shows that Point by point was better compared to the implementation of Block Style Method.