EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTENT – BASED INSTRUCTION IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ISLAMIC WRITING ABILITY IN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL OF AL-WAHID PAPE SIDENRENG RAPPANG

ABSTRACT
AMRAN HASENG, 2019. Content Based Instruction in Improving Student’s
Writing Ability in Islamic Boarding School of Al-Wahid Pape ( Supervised by
Rafi’ah Nur and Abdul Rahman)
This research is aimed at finding out: How is the effectiveness of Content - Based Instruction in improving the students’ writing ability of the tenth year
students. To achieve the goal of this study. The researcher did experimental
research was used as a method in this study and research design used was a quasi
experimental. The study was carried out in two classes, they are the experimental
group and control group. The population of this research were the tenth class of
Al-Wahid Pape in academic year 2018-2019. X MIA was chosen as the
experimental group and X IIS were chosen as the control group. The instruments
for collecting the data were writing test, questionnaire, and observation sheet. The
data obtained through the test were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.
Based on the result of the data analysis, the researcher finding shows that
the students’ writing ability of the experimental group has a significan different
from the control group. The students could developing and generate their ideas by
content-based instruction and make the students more enthusiastic in the writing
activities. All students could understand and respond to the researcher’
instructions and explanations. It is proved by the data that the mean score of the
experimental group is higher than control group ( 76.18  60.32), and the t-test
value is higher than t-table value ( 4.905  1.685). The result of this study
indicates that the use of content-based instruction significantly improves the
students writing ability. The researcher finding that the students’ have positive
attitude toward the use of content-based instruction. It is proved by the data from
questionnaire that the students’ mean score of attitude is 102.21, which is
categorized as very high, and the data from observation sheet that the percentage
of positive items is higher that negative items ( 89.3  53,9 )