The Effect of Using Slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures on the Descriptive Writing Achievement of the Eight Grade Students at SMPN 1 Mayang 2014/2015 academic Year;

Abstract

In Indonesia, English as a foreign language has been taught as a compulsory subject at all schools up to universities. English language has four skills and three language components that the students have to master. The skills are listening, speaking, reading, and writing and the three language components are grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. One of the skills that has been regarded as a very difficult to be mastered is writing. Writing is a form of written communication to express thought or feeling. When someone needs to communicate to another, which he can not speak to, writing can be used as another way to communicate with other people instead of speaking. Many Junior High School students have difficulties in mastering the writing skill. One of the reasons is because the teacher fails to apply a teaching media which works efficiently with the learning environment. Under this circumstance an English teacher is required to be able to select an appropriate teaching media to optimize the efficiency of teaching and learning progress. One of the teaching media proven to be appropriate especially in descriptive writing skill is “Slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures.” The design of this media aims to provide the students a mean to get more information about an object they should describe. This act shall lead into a better organized descriptive text. In addition, this media apply the Microsoft Power Point v.2007 which is widely known. The future of this software is considerably easy to use and possibly sufficient in supporting the teacher to gain students attention during the class activity. This research’s purpose was to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures on the eight grade 14 student’s descriptive writing achievement at SMPN 1 Mayang 2014/2015 academic year. The design of this research is quasi experimental research. The research conducted collaboratively with the English teacher in the form of planning the lesson plan, arranging the content of the test, and scoring the test. There were two kinds of data in this research, namely primary and secondary data. Primary data dealt with students writing scores taken from the post test. Meanwhile the secondary data dealt with the results of documentation and interview. The respondents were two classes that had the closest mean score, which later chosen as the control class and the experimental class. Based on the output of ANOVA, the two classes that had the closest mean score were VIII-A and VIII-B. Based on the results of the data analysis in independent sample t-test by using SPSS it can be seen that the value of sig column in the first row was 0.000 and this value was less than 0.05. Consequently the null hypotheses which was formulated as: “There is no Significant Effect of Using Slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures on the Eighth Grade Students Descriptive Paragraph Writing Achievement at SMP Negeri 1 Mayang in the 2014/2015 Academic Year” was rejected and the alternative hypothesis which says :“There is a Significant Effect of Using slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures on the Eighth Grade Students Descriptive Paragraph Writing Achievement at SMP Negeri 1 Mayang in the 2014/2015 Academic Year” was accepted. Considering on the result of the writing test, it was concluded that teaching descriptive writing using Slideshow of Serial of Single Pictures as a media, had a significant effect on the eight grade students’ descriptive writing achievement at SMPN 1 Mayang in the 2014/2015 academic year. This experimental research proven that this media 25,98% more effective in teaching writing a descriptive paragraph.