Teaching Technique: Inside Outside Circle on Students’ Writing Skill of Secondary School in Tangerang

This research is aimed to find out the effect of the inside outside
circle on tenth-grade students' writing narrative text at SMAN
3 Kabupaten Tangerang in the academic year 2019/2020. This
research used a quasi-experiment with pre-test and post-test
design. The technique of teaching used in this research is the
inside outside circle. The population is 416 students at the
school, and the sample was purposively selected by taking two
classes of the tenth grade, each consists of 30 students The data
was analyzed by using a T-test at the level significance
(α=0.05) and degree of freedom is 58. The result showed that
the t-count was higher than the t-table (4.49 > 2.00). In other
words, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the hypothesis
alternative (Ha) is accepted. It means that the inside outside
circle technique can improve the students' writing narrative
score and the students will be easier to write because it can
improve students' ideas. So, the inside outside circle is
recommended to be applied for teaching writing.