The Use Of Magic Card To Improve Students’ Writing Procedure Text

Abstract

Writing is the most crucial skill that students acquire during learning English. To teach writing, the teacher must be creative and innovative. This research is about the use magic card as teaching media in teaching writing procedure text at SMP Negeri 40 Semarang. The aims of this research are: (1) to investigate the extent of the students’ ability in writing procedure text without using magic card, (2) to find out the students’ writing ability in procedure text by using magic card, (3) to know the significance difference between students’ ability on procedure text taught without and by using magic card. The research design used in this research is a quasi-experimental with a quantitative approach. The instruments of data collection were pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 16 version. The result of data analysis showed that the students’ score who taught by using magic card was higher than the students’ score who taught without using magic card. Based on Mann-Whitney Test, the value of experiment class is 46.52 and the control class is 16.48. This means that there is a significant difference between the students who were taught by using magic card and taught without magic card.