| dc.description.abstract | This research was a quasi experimental design with non-equivalent group
post test only design. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not
there was a significant effect of using Single Pictures on the eighth grades
students’ descriptive text writing ability at SMPN 4 Rogojampi Satu Atap. The
population of this research was all of the eighth year students of SMPN 4
Rogojampi Satu Atap in the 2014/2015 academic year.
Homogeneity analysis was done to know the homogeneity of the
population and determine the research samples. The data analyzed were the results
of the previous semester score from the English teacher. They were analyzed by
ANOVA formula with SPSS and the result showed that the significant value is
0.000 which is definitely lower than 0.05. It means that the classes were
heterogeneous, which also means that the students’ ability was various. Therefore,
two classes with similar level of ability were selected based on the nearest mean
score as representative of the population in this research. The two classes chosen
were 8B with means score 73.13 and 8D with mean score 73.33. Lottery was
applied to decide which class between 8B and 8D that became the experimental
class or the control class. From the lottery, class 8B was chosen as the control
class that was taught writing without using single picture and class 8D as the
experimental class that was taught writing by using single picture. The total
number of respondents was 60. Both of the respondents of the experimental class
and the control class students were 30.
The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of writing
achievement test, interview and documentation. The students’ writing
achievement was collected from the writing test to make comparison between the
two groups after the treatment done. The results of the research were analyzed by using independent sample t-test on SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Science).
Based on the computation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher
than the control group. It was 70.3333 for experimental group and 51.6667 for the
control group. The Significant (2-tailed) column shows 0.000 value, which is
lower than 0.05. It means that the null hypothesis “There is no significant effect
using single picture on the eighth grade student was rejected. Consequently, the
alternative hypothesis, that “there is a significant effect of using Single Picture on
the eighth grade student’s descriptive text writing achievement at SMP Negeri 4
Rogojampi Satu Atap” was accepted.
The result research proved that there was a significant effect of using Single
Pictures on the eighth grades students’ descriptive text writing ability at SMPN 4
Rogojampi Satu Atap in the 2014/2015 academic year. | en_US |
