THE EFFECT OF USING STICK FIGURES ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT AT MTsN KENCONG JEMBER

Abstract

Writing is a means of communication in a written form. It is considered as one of the four language skills that should be mastered by the students in learning English besides reading, speaking and listening. However, learning writing is not easy. One of the possible solutions is applying stick figures as teaching media in teaching writing. The purpose of this research was intended to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using stick figures on the eighth grade students’ writing achievement at MTsN Kencong Jember. This was an experimental research with Randomized Post-Test Only Control Group Design. The research respondents were two classes of the eighth grade students taken by using cluster random sampling by lottery from five classes as the population. Class VIII E was determined as the experimental group and class VIII D as the control group. The experimental group was given a treatment by using stick figures in their writing composition. The control group was not given any treatment. The primary data were collected by administering writing test to both groups, the experimental group and the control groups. The results of the writing test of the two groups were analyzed by applying t-test formula with significant level 5%. The supporting data were taken from interview and documentation. The result showed that the value of t-test was 2.90 which was higher than the value of t-table 2.00. It means that there was a significant effect of using stick figures on the eighth grade students’ writing achievement at MTsN Kencong Jember. Based on the result, the English teacher is suggested to use stick figures in teaching English especially in teaching writing to improve the students’ writing achievement.