This research was aimed to find out the effectiveness of word web for teaching
writing of narrative text. This research was conducted at MTs Ma‟arif NU
Kemangkon in academic year 2013/2014. The total sample of this research was 78
students. The students were divided into two classes: VIII B and VIII C. VIII C was
as experimental class that is taught by word web, and VIII B was as control class
taught by conventional technique. In collecting data, this study used test: pre-test and
post-test which were in the form of paragraph writing. Pre-test was given before the
treatment, and post-test was given after the treatment.
Based on the result, it was found that word web was effective for teaching writing
narrative text. It can be seen in the result of t-test which was 4.050, and t-table was
1.665at significant level of 0.05 with 76 degree of freedom. Thus, the t-test was
higher than t-table (4.050 > 1.665). Finally, the hypothesis of this study that word
web was effective for teaching writing narrative text was accepted.