The Effect of Using the Serial Slideshow of Single Pictures on the the Eighth Grade Students’ Descriptive Writing Achievement at SMPN 1 Mayang, Jember

Abstract

This research was to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using slideshow of the serial of single pictures on students’ descriptive writing achievement. The research method was quasi-experimental with post-test only design, The respondents were the students of VIII A of SMPN 1 Mayang, chosen randomly from the homogenous population as the experimental group. The students of class VIII B of the school were assigned as the control group. The data were collected by test, interview and documentation. The research result proved that the media had a significant effect on the students’ writing achievement because the value of the significant column of Lavene’s test was 0.021 lower than 0.05. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (H ) that there was a significant effect of using slideshow of serial of single pictures on the eighth grade students’ descriptive writing achievement at SMPN 1 Mayang, Jember was accepted.