The Effectiveness of Using Collaborative Writing Method and Metacognitive Writing Method in Enhancing Students’ Writing in Secondary School Education

This study was aimed to find out: (1) whether the use of collaborative writing method is more effective than the use of metacognitive writing method in the teaching of writing ability, (2) whether the use of collaborative writing method is more effective than the use of conventional writing method, (3) whether the use of metacognitive writing method is more effective than the use of conventional writing method, (4) the most effective method among collaborative writing method, metacognitive writing method, and conventional writing method in the teaching writing ability. This study was a quasi-experimental research. The data were collected from 108 students of secondary school in February-March 2018 in Yogyakarta. The sample of the study was the students of Muhammadiyah School in Yogyakarta which were determined by using cluster simple random sampling. There were four hypotheses of this study and the research findings revealed that the hypotheses were accepted. It was indicated by all of the Sig values which were lower than the level of significance (0.05).