The Use Of Picture Series As Teaching Media To Improve Student's Descriptive Text Writing Skill

 

This research aims to answer the research questions that cover, whether there is any significant difference in result between the use of Picture Series as a media to improve students' Descriptive Text writing skill and the conventional method, whether Picture Series is effective to teach writing Descriptive Text, and how students' response toward Picture Series in improving their Descriptive Text writing skill.

After the data of post-test was obtained and computed, it is found that Picture Series has significantly better result to teach writing Descriptive Text than the conventional method at the first grade students of Pelita Bunga Bangsa Vocational School. It can be seen from the result of t-test. That is the value of t-test higher than that critical of t (t-table). It also means that Picture Series is effective to teach writing Descriptive Text to the first grade students of Pelita Bunga Bangsa Vocational School. In addition from the result of questionnaire, it is found that the students like being taught writing Descriptive Text using Picture Series and the students feel happy because Picture Series is fun.

The students' good responses toward the use of picture series as an alternative media to improve their Descriptive Text writing skill above corroborate the opinion stated by Raimes (1983:27) that "Pictures bring the outside world into the classroom in a vividly concrete way." The results of this research prove that Raimes's opinion above is true.

Therefore the use of Picture Series as a means of teach writing Descriptive Text has significantly better result than the conventional method, it is effective to be used to teach writing Descriptive Text, and the students give the positive response toward the use of Picture Series as an alternative media to improve students' Descriptive Text writing skill.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Raimes, Ann. 1983. Techniques in Teaching Writing. New York: Oxford

University Press

Teaching English 4 All. (2010, June 28). Descriptive Text in Teaching English.

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