| dc.description.abstract | This research was conducted to investigate the effect of using Single Pictures
on the seventh grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing ability at MTs Negeri 2
Jember. The population of this research was all of the seventh year students of MTs
Negeri 2 Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The research respondents were
determined by students’ scores in the previous semester. The number of the
respondents was 50 students, consisting of 26 students of grade VII-F as the control
class that was taught orally without any visual media, and 24 students of VII-G as the
experimental group, that was taught by using single pictures as media in teaching
writing.
The primary data of this research were obtained from the students’ scores of
descriptive writing test. The scores were analyzed by using independent sample TTest
(SPSS)
to
compare
the
test
scores
of
the
two
different
classes
after
treatment.
Based on the calculation, the result of this research showed that there was a
significant effect of using single pictures on the seventh grade students’ descriptive
paragraph writing achievement. It was proven by the value of the significant column
in the t-test table that showed the value of 0.001 which is lower than 0.05 (confidence
level of 95%). This means that the null hypothesis (H
) formulated: “There is no
significant effect of using Single Pictures on the seventh grade students’ descriptive
paragraph writing achievement at MTs Negeri 2 Jember” was rejected, while the
alternative hypothesis (H
a
vi
0
): “There is a significant effect of using Single Pictures on
the seventh grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at MTs Negeri
2 Jember” was accepted.
The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using Single
Pictures on the seventh grade students’ descriptive paragraph writing achievement at
MTs Negeri 2 jember. Therefore it is recommended for the English teacher to use
Single Pictures as the media in teaching descriptive paragraph writing. | en_US |
