PROCEEDING OF SHEPO 2020 (International Conference On Social Sciences & Humanity, Economics, And Politics) 125 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDING QUESTION TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Norlaili Damayanti Islamic University Of Kalimantan norlaili.damayanti15@gmail.com Angga Taufan Dayu Islamic University Of Kalimantan Hurhasanah Islamic University Of Kalimantan ABSTRACT Writing skill became very important in the education field, the students need to be exercised and trained in order to have a good writing skill. Guiding question is the fundamental query that directs the search for understanding. This technique provides a list of questions that can make the students think about the topic. This technique is expected to give guidance about what should be included in students’ writing. By used guiding questions technique, the students would not be confused of what to write first and next because they have guidance in its process. The purpose of this research is to identify the effectiveness of guiding question technique for teaching writing. This research was a quantitative research which used a one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Alalak in the second semester of academic year 2019/2020. The research took one class as the sample and it was VIII B which consisted of 26 students. A writing test of recount text was applied to collect the data. The data were use dependent t-test formula with the help of SPSS by using dependent t-test formula. The result of this research showed that the t value is 24.826 while the critical t-value of 5% from one tailed test is 2.060. This shows that the work hypothesis is accepted because the obtained t-value exceeds the critical t-value. Keyword: Writing, Guiding Question Technique, Recount Text 1. INTRODUCTION Language is one of the most important things in communication and it is used as a tool of communication among the nations in all over the world. As an international language, English is very important and has many interrelationships with various aspects of life owned by human being. In Indonesia, English considered as the first foreign language and taught formally from elementary school up to the university level. English is used as a foreign language in our country.Although English is not used every day,but it has become more important and popular nowadays, because of it,the goverment has given a positive respont. Especially an ministry of education(Khotimah,2008:2). In English, there are four skills that should be mastered, they are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing skill became very important in the education field, the students need to be exercised and trained in order to have a good writing skill. According to Zamel (2007: 207), writing is a process which the people can explore and discover their thoughts and ideas in written form. (Harmer ,2004) states that writing is a way to produce language and express ideas, feelings, and opinions. According to Sari (2013: 2), there are three reasons that the students have difficulties in writing; they are: Fisrt, the students are lack of vocabulary mastery so they are not able to express their ideas in appropriating English words; Second, the students are lack of grammar mastery so they are not able to write grammatical sentence; Third, the students are lack of motivation in learning writing, so they have a bad performance in writing. So, to be a good writer is not easy because a writer must pay attention to principal purpose or writing and also must consider the aspects of writing in his writing. In writing, there are five aspects which should be concerned namely content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanic. Recount text is one of the texts that recalls and reconstructs events, experiences and achievements from the past in a logical sequence. The aim of recount text both inform and entertain. Setiawan (2007:44) that recounts text generally has structure. The students should be guided by the purpose for an audience of their text in their use of the following structure. Based on the researcher experience on PLP II, the researcher saw many students at SMP Negeri 5 Alalak are lack of their writing skill. It makes difficult for students to write like a word, sentence and paragraph. This is one of the reason their writing is limited. The researcher thinks to use technique which is students become easier in writing skill. There are some techniques that can be used in teaching writing. One of them is guiding question technique. Guiding question is the fundamental query that directs the search for understanding. This technique provides a list of questions that can make the students think about the topic. This technique is expected to give guidance about what should be included in students’ writing. By using guiding questions technique, the students will not be confused of what to write first and next because they have guidance in its process. 2. METHOD Research Design and Setting The research design is quantitative research. Then, the researcher will use pre experimental research to