The Effect of Quick Write Strategy and Motivation toward Students’ Writing Ability of News Item Text at the First Year Students of SMA N 5 Padang in 2015/2016 Academic Year

Writing is one of the abilities which is important to be learned with appropriate teaching strategy. Quick Write Strategy can be used as a variation strategy in teaching writing. The purpose of this research was to know whether Quick Write Strategy and motivation gave significant effect toward students’ writing ability of news item text. The design of this research was quasi experimental research with 2x2 factorial design. The first-year students of SMA N 5 Padang in 2015/2016 academic year was used as the population. The total population of the first-year are 303 students which is distributed in ten classes. The sample of this research are experimental class (X.7) which consists of 26 students and control class (X.8) which consists of 27 students. Then, writing test and motivation questionnaire were used as the instrumentations. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by t-test formula and Two Ways ANOVA. From calculation, the researcher found that (1) the students who are taught by using Quick Write Strategy have higher scores in writing ability of news item text than those who are taught by using Discussion Strategy, (2) the students with high motivation who are taught by using Quick Write Strategy have higher scores in writing ability of news item text than those who are taught by using Discussion Strategy, (3) the studentswith low motivation who are taught by using Quick Write Strategy have higher scores in writing ability of news item text than those who are taught by using Discussion Strategy, and (4) there is nointeraction between teaching strategies (Quick Write Strategy and Discussion Strategy) and the students’ motivation toward their writing ability of news item text.