The Use of Hypnoteaching to The Students’ Writing Achievement in Learning Descriptive Paragraph

Abstract

This research aims at finding out whether or not the use of hypnoteaching is effective in upgrading the students’ writing achievement in learning descriptive paragraphs at the eleventh grade of SMA 1 Sukamaju. The researcher focuses on using hypnoteaching in learning writing descriptive paragraphs. The aspects of writing focus on content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanic. This research applies pre-experimental design with the pretest, treatment, and posttest. The population of this research is the eleventh-grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sukamaju. The total number of population is 225 students who are separated in 9 classes. There are 25 students in every class. The researcher uses purposive sampling technique in determining class IPA 3 because according to the English teacher, the students of this class have good achievement in speaking and listening, but low in writing. Therefore, the total number of sample in this research is 25 students. Based on the results of data analysis, the researcher concludes that the use of hypnoteaching is effective in improving students’ writing achievement in learning descriptive paragraphs at class XI IPA 3 of SMA Negeri 1 Sukamaju. It is supported by the data of t-test is 16.63 and the result of significant (2-tailed) is 0.00. From criteria of hypothesis acceptability said that if t₀   or 0.00  0.05, it means that there is a significant difference between the result of pretest and post-test.