The Use of Picture Media to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Perintis 29 Ungaran in the Academic Year of 2017/2018

Meity, Monica Lolita (2018) The Use of Picture Media to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Perintis 29 Ungaran in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Meity, Monica Lolita. 2017. The Use of Picture Media to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text for the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Perintis 29 Ungaran in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. A Graduating Paper, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, English Education Department, State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. The research is mainly aimed to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text using picture at the tenth grade students of SMK Perintis 29 Ungaran in the academic year of 2017//2018. The subject of this research consists of 25 students of Fashion class. The objectives of the study are (1) To find out whether the use of picture media can improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. (2) To find out how far the improvement of students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The methodology of the research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). It was conducted in two cycles which four meetings. Each cycle contains in four steps. They were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data are collected through observation, test, and documentation. The result shows that (1) The use of picture media can improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. It shown in cycle 1 that the mean score of pre-test is 63.04 and post-testis 79.52. Meanwhile, the pre-test in cycle 2 is 66.27 and post-test is 84.56. (2) The improvement of the students’ ability in writing descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMK Perintis 29 Ungaran is really significant. The students who pass the passing grade improve gradually from the cycle 1 and the cycle 2. The passing grade is 75. In the pre-test of the cycle 1 is 8% of the students who pass the passing grade. In the post-test of the cycle 1, 72% of the students successfully pass the passing grade. Then, in the pre-test of the cycle 2, 16% of the students pass the passing grade. In the post test of the cycle 2.88% of the students successfully pass the passing grade. So,the improvement students who pass the passing grade in the cycle 1 is 64% and cycle 2 is 72%. In the cycle 1, the t-test is 8.28 and the t-table is 2.036. The significant level is 5%. Then, in the cycle 2, the t-test is 9.35. Key Words: Picture, Writing, Descriptive Text, Classroom Action Research

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