THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE CARD TOWARD ENGLISH WRITING ABILITY AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENT OF MA AL-MUAYYAD SURAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2014/2015
| Main Authors: | Diana, Istiqomah, Hj., Woro Retnaningsih,M.Pd |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/682/1/Diana%20Istiqomah.pdf http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/682/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Key words : Picture Card, Writing Skill, Descriptive text , Experimental Research. Picture card is a piece paper as representation of anything is like an object or scene, person and general idea which the produce by drawing, painting or photograph for using according to our need. Picture is helpful in motivating to get an idea of the students to accept responsibility for learning something well enough to teach it to their peers. The objective of study is to find out the effectiveness of picture card toward English writing ability at the first grade of MA Al-Muayyad Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015. To achieve the objective of study, the researcher conducted experimental research. This experimental research was held at MA Al-Muayyad Surakarta. This research will not be a true experimental, but a quasi-experimental. A quasi-experimental will be used because the researcher will not randomly assign subjects to experimental treatments for a study. The researcher will use already assembled groups such as classes. The researcher use pre test and post test design. Before conducting the research, the two groups or classes are given pre test and post test at the end of the research. Then, the result of the test make a judgment about the effect of the treatment. The population in this research is all students of first grade of MA Al-Muayyad Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015. The number of the entire students is 66. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique to determine class of research. The subject of the study was the grade X IIS 1 and X IIS 2. There were 22 students each class. The writer conducted research in two classes. The first class X IIS 1 was as control class and the second class X IIS 2 was as experimental class. The Experimental class was taught writing descriptive text using picture card media, whereas the control class was taught writing descriptive text using post card media. In analyzing the data, the researcher used quantitative measurement to find the result. The finding of the study indicated that there was a significant difference of the students’ achievement between experimental class and control class. Students’ writing achievement with the minimum standard of score (KKM) 70. The average of the students’ achievement before conducted treatnment 72.73 for experimental class and 60.86 for control class. The average of the students’ achievement after conducted treatment in experimental class was 88.77 and in control class was 66.32. Based on this finding, it is suggested that picture card media can be used by the teachers to improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. It can be applied in English teaching learning process as one of the media in teaching learning.