Using Pictures to Improve Students’ Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

The aims of this research were to find out significant difference in students’ writing descriptive text those taught using and without using pictures. This research uses experimental research. The population of this study were seventh grade students from SMP Negeri 2 Kersana. The samples of this study were class VII E as the experimental class and class VII F as control class. The instruments used in this study were a writing test. The data were collected from the test and analyzed statistically in the form of t-test. Based on the analysis of data from the experiment class nd control class, it showed that the average pre-test was 53.8 and 59.6. Meanwhile, the posttest average was 85.3 and 71.6. The Paired Simple t-test showed that sig. (2-tailed) 0.00 < 0.05, which means that there is a significant between students writing descriptive text those taught using pictures and without using pictures. The students’ ability in writing skill in seventh grade in SMP Negeri 2 kersana in writing English text is poor. After being taught using pictures, the student’s frequency of post-test increased from poor to very good. Teachers may use pictures as an effective and innovative teaching to improve students’ writing skill.