IMPROVING THE STUDENTS ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH PICTURE

Abstract

This research paper entitled “Improving The Students Ability To Write Descriptive paragraph Through Picture”. The aims of this research were to investigate whether there is any significant difference in the students’ score before and after to know students’ response towards the use of picture in improving students’ writing. The sample of this research was class A of the second grade of MTs Baitul Aziz 2018/2019 which contained 24 students. To achieve the aims a pre-experimental design was employed in this research whereas there was no control group for the comparison, but there was only a group experimental as a single sample. The writer used pre-test, post-test and questionnaire as the instruments. In the result of computing the data of pre-test and post-test by using t-test for dependent group formula was 15.461. And for the critical value of t-table at p = .05 with df = N – 1 = 24 – 1 = 23 at the level of the significance for two-tailed test was 2.069. It showed that t-observed was bigger than t-table (15.461 > 2.069). It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected, stating that there was significant difference in the students’ score before and after the treatment in teaching writing using picture. Based on the computation above, the first research question was answered. It is revealed that the students gave positive response toward the use of picture in teaching writing. By using picture materials, they can learn writing easily, it can help student to improve students’ writing, and they like it.
Keywords: The Use Picture , Writing, Descriptive Text.