| dc.description.abstract | This experimental research was intended to know whether or not there
was a significant effect of using picture series on the eleventh grade students’
writing achievement at MAN 2 Jember. Based on the English teacher’s
information, the eleventh grade students had difficulties in writing, especially in
grammar, generating and developing ideas. This finding was also supported with
the results of post test of the writing test.
To overcome this problem above, the researcher used picture series as
media to be able to atrract the students, to motivate and to contribute to the
context in which the languange is being used. It also supported by Wright
(1989:17), pictures can motivate students and make them want to pay attention
and want to take a part in the teaching learning process. He also stated that
pictures can be used to improve some aspects of language such as structure,
vocabulary, function, situation and four language skills (Wright, 1989:4-6).
The experimental research was conducted on 9th-12th June, 2015. The first
and second meetings of the research were conducted on June 9th ,2015 and June
10th,2015 for both groups. The learning materials for both groups, the
experimental group and the control group, was the same. But, the treatment
between the experimental and the control groups were different. The treatment for
the experimental group was taught a narrative text by using picture series while
the the control group was taught a narrative text without using picture series.
The results of the students’ narrative writing achievement in the post-test
score were analyzed by using independent sample t-test. The writing post test was
conducted on June 12th, 2015 to find the significance of the data from the two
groups involved in this research. There were 34 students in the experimental
group and 34 students present in the control group. The test was given to both groups after the treatments. The researcher used 95% confidence interval of the
difference. It means that the standard error in this calculation was only 5 %.
Based on the output of Independent sample T-test by using SPSS, the
degree of freedom (df) of post test was 42,948. The value of Lavene’s Test of
Equality variances is 0.000 or we can say that it is less than 0,05. If the value of
Sig. (2 tailed) is less than 0,05, it indicated that the null hypothesis (H0) was
rejected. That is why, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) with 95% confidence
interval of the difference was accepted.
Based on the result above, it could be concluded that there was a
significant effect of using picture series on the eleventh grade students and the use
of picture series was effective to overcome the students’ problems in writing. | en_US |
