THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TALKING STICK TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING OF HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXTS

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the influence of talking stick technique in improving the students’ competence in developing hortatory exposition texts. This sequential explanatory mixed method research was conducted at Tidar University. The subject of this research was the students of English Department of Tidar University (Untidar). This research was conducted in two stages. The first was investigating whether or not there is significant difference of the competence in developing hortatory exposition texts of the English Department students of Untidar in 2014/2015 academic year before and after the implementation of talking stick technique. In addition to that, for the second stage, it is to find out how effective learningteaching activity is when talking stick technique is applied in teaching writing of hortatory exposition text to the English Department students of Untidar in 2014/2015 academic year. Based on the data analysis, it shows that there is significant difference of the competence in developing hortatory exposition texts of the English Department students of Untidar in 2014/2015 academic year before and after the implementation of talking stick technique. Besides, talking stick technique improves the effectiveness of teaching-learning activities of writing class of hortatory exposition texts.