Author (Penulis)

HERU WAHYUDI UTOMO
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0088

Abstract

THE EFFECT OF PICTURE CUED TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STDUENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF SMP NEGERI 2 PAPAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016 Heru Wahyudi Utomo 11.1.01.08.0088 Faculty of Teaching and Education – English Department Email: Heruwahyudiutomo@gmail.com Dosen Pembimbing: Drs. Agung Wicaksono, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing: Suhartono, M.Pd. UNIVERSITAS NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI ABSTRACT Writing is the most difficult subject because students must be able to deliver or develop their ideas in written text and they must be able to organize sentences in order to make grammatical and coherent paragraph. This research was conducted to know whether there is effect of picture cued to the eight grade Students’ writing ability of SMP Negeri 2 Papar in academic year of 2015/2016. This approach in this research was quantitative research while the variables used in this research were students’ writing ability in narrative text as dependent variable and picture cued as independent variable. This research was held in SMP Negeri 2 Papar. Then, the data were obtained from the eighth grade students. There were 27 students as sample. To get the data, the writer used pre-test and post-test then analyzed using t-test formula to know the effect of picture cued to the students’ writing ability. The result from this research shows that there is any effect of teaching writing using picture cued to the students’ writing ability. It is proved by t-score (6,706) which it is higher than t-table at level significance 1% (2.779) and 5% (2.056). Based on this result alternative hypothesis (ha) is accepted. In conclusion there is significant effect of teaching narrative text using picture cued to the students’ writing ability. The conclusion in this research are (1) there is significant effect of teaching narrative text using picture cued to the students’ writing ability, (2) the students score are higher after being taught by using picture cued, it is proved by the average score before being taught by using picture cued is 46.03 while after being taught by using picture cued is 58.88. The writer suggests that (1) the teacher can use picture cued to help the students to deliver their ideas through written text, (2) for students picture cued can help students to improve their writing ability in narrative text, (3) for other researcher, the writer hopes they are able to develop this technique to improve other skills. Key Words: Students’ writing ability, Picture cued

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PUBLISHED

2016-08-13

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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