IMPLEMENTING COMMUNICATIVE FLUENCY ACTIVITIES AS LEARNING TECHNIQUE TO PROMOTE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

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This research explores the ability of students to write descriptive scripts through communicative fluency activities (CFA) as learning techniques. This study aims to determine whether the Communicative Fluency Activitie has improved the ability second grade students of Politeknik Negeri Ambon in academic year 2019-2020. The method used is pre-experimental by providing two types of tests, namely pre-test and post-test. The research sample was selected using random selection. The number of samples is 27 students from class TKJJB. The instrument used was writing test. The data obtained were analyzed using t-test. The result of the research showed the students' writing ability after being taught with the CFA technique is better than before. This can be proven by the value of t-test (13.48) higher than the value of t-table (1.721) where (df) = (N-1) = (22-1) = 21 with a significant level of 0.05. That means that teaching through communicative fluency techniques can improve the writing ability of second grade students of Politeknik Negeri Ambon.

Keywords: descriptive text, communicative fluency activities (CFA), learning technique