The Effect of Using Realia on the Seventh Grade Students’ Descriptive Paragraph Writing Achievement

Abstract

Writing is claimed as one of the most complex skills to be mastered. Especially for the EFL students, like Indonesian students. It is because in producing a good writing, the students should consider five aspects. They are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics. Thus, in this research, the researcher used realia media which can stimulate and motivate the students to learn writing. This quasi experimental research was intended to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using realia on the seventh grade students‟ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at MTs. Al-Huda Sukorejo, Banyuwangi in the academic year of 2019/2020. Before selecting the participants (the control group and the experimental group), the researcher did the homogeneity test to the population (the seventh grade students). The researcher analyzed the students‟ previous writing scores from the English teacher by using ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) on SPSS. The result showed that the population was heterogeneous. Therefore, the researcher chose two groups which had the closest mean scores. They were class 7A and class 7B. Class 7A was the experimental group which was taught writing by using realia media and 7B was chosen as the control group which was taught writing by using pictures After giving the treatments to both groups (the experimental group and the control group), the researcher gave them posttest. The results of the posttest were analyzed by using independent sample t-test by using SPSS. Based on the output of t-test analysis, the significant value (2-tailed) was 0.036. It was lower than 0.05 which means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which says “There is a significant effect of using realia on the seventh grade students‟ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at MTs. Al-Huda Sukorejo, Banyuwangi in the academic year of 2019/2020” was accepted. Then, the null hypothesis (H0) which says “There is no significant effect of using realia on the seventh grade students‟ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at MTs. Al-Huda Sukorejo, Banyuwangi in the academic year of 2019/2020” was rejected. Regarding the result of the hypothesis verification and the explanation above, it could be concluded that there was a significant effect of using realia media on the seventh grade students‟ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at MTs. Al-Huda Sukorejo, Banyuwangi in the academic year of 2019/2020. Therefore, it is suggested for the English teacher to use realia as the media in teaching writing