The effect of using pictures toward writing descriptive text at Tenth Grade Students of MAN Tapanuli Selatan

Sinaga, Sahduan (2022) The effect of using pictures toward writing descriptive text at Tenth Grade Students of MAN Tapanuli Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is intended to investigate the effect of using pictures toward writing descriptive text at tenth grade students of MAN Tapanuli Selatan. The problems that faced by the students in writing descriptive text were: 1) most of students lack of vocabulary mastery, 2) Most of students lack of understanding tenses, 3) Most of students lack of understanding descriptive text, 4) Most of students did not know that there was a media can help them in learning about descriptive text. The formulation of the problem in this research were: 1) How is students’ writing descriptive text skills before learning by using media, 2) How is students’ writing descriptive text skills after learning by using media, 3) Is there any significant efffect of using pictures media to students’ writing descriptive text skills. The purpose of this research was to answer the formulation of the problem in this research. This research uses experimental quantitative method with pre-test and post-test design. The populations were all of the students at thenth grade of MAN Tapanuli Selatan. The sample were two classes, MIA-1 as an experimental class that consists of 20 students and MIA-2 as a control class that consists of 20 students. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test in essay test form and analyzed by using Statistical Formula by Sugiyono with T-test. The result of the research showed that the mean score of experimental class was higher than mean score of conrol class after using pictures media. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test was 53.65 and the mean score of control class in pre test was 50.6. Meanwhile, the mean score of experimental class in post-test after doing the treatment by using pictures media was 72.95 and the mean score of control class in post test was 65.9. Therefore, alternative hypothesis (Hₐ) of this research was accepted and the null hypothesis (Hₒ) of this research was rejected. It can be concluded that there was a significant effect of using pictures toward writing descriptive text at thenth grade students of MAN Tapanuli Selatan.

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