The Difficulties of Learning Passive Voice

Abstract

The objective of this true experimental study was to find out whether “Snowball Throwing†method is effective or not to teach writing procedure text on the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Paguyangan in the academic year 2015/2016. It was found that in Independent Samples Test between control and experimental class got score sig was 0,816=81,6 (more than 0.05) and the score from t-test and Equal Variance Assumed was 0,000 (less than 0.05). It means that both of classes had same variant but had different achievement. It can be seen from comparing the means both of the classes; it was found that the mean of experimental class was 84.95 which were higher than control class 77.72. Then the result of the mean of post-test of experimental class was 84.95 which were higher than pre-test 66.95. It could be concluded that “Snowball Throwing†method was effective in teaching writing procedure text on the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Paguyangan in the academic year 2015/2016.