Using Cinematography to Improve Students’ Descriptive Writing Skill ( A Study for Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Ambarawa in Academic Year of 2018/2019)

Kusumawati, Ira (2018) Using Cinematography to Improve Students’ Descriptive Writing Skill ( A Study for Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Ambarawa in Academic Year of 2018/2019). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Kusumawati, Ira. 2018. Using Cinematography to Improve Students’ Descriptive Writing Skill at SMA Negeri 1 Ambarawa in Academic Year of 2018/2019. A Graduating Paper. English Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies Salatiga. Counselor: Noor Malihah, Ph.D The objectives of the research are to find out the use of cinematography to improve students’ descriptive writing skill and to define the significant improvement of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ambarawa in the academic year 2018/2019. The methodology of the research was Action Research especially Classroom Action Research (CAR). There were two cycles; each cycles comprised planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The technique of collecting data was teacher’s and students’ observation checklists to find out the teacher and the students activity in the class, documentation to find out the critical moments in teaching and learning process, and written test to find out the students’ mastery on writing descriptive text. The result of the research shows that in cycle I, the of mean pre-test is 51.52 with 3% of students who passed the criteria of passing grade and the mean of post-test is 74.30 with 66% students who could pass the criteria of passing grade. The result of post-test in cycle II shows that there were 97% students who passed the criteria of passing grade with the mean 85.03. Furthemore, the result of t-test calculation in cycle I is 15.180 and cycle 2 is 19.754. These results indicate that cinematography as teaching media provides significant contribution to improve the students’ descriptive writing skill.

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