Author (Penulis)

NIKEN PRADITA ARYANE LUTFI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0140

Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing is not merely a skill to express person’s ideas into sentences, but it is one of four English skills which is very complex as it only can be acquired through cognitive efforts, training, instruction, and practice. It creates an opinion for students that writing is very difficult to acquire. This problem can be caused by some factors, such as inappropriate teaching strategies applied by the teacher, low ability of students, and the materials used. Hence, in order to help the students to learn writing skill English teacher needs to equip themselves with various teaching techniques that can help them to gain the goal of learning English. In this term, using Picture Series as a teaching media that can be an appropriate source to be used in teaching writing especially procedure text.This research adopted quantitative and the design of the research was one-group pretest-posttest to investigate the effect of using Picture Series on the students’ writing ability of the tenth grade students at SMAN 7 Kediri. The sample of the research was class X-2 from regular class consisting of 26 students. This research was held in four meetings involved pre-test, first treatment, second treatment, and post-test. The researcher used the form of essay test writing procedure text as the instrument to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researcher applied the rubric of writing and using t-test to know the effect of the treatments. The statitical data in the research showed that the mean score of pre-test was 62.2 and post-test was 72.3. From this result the researcher found that the t-score (10,632) > t-table 5% (2.060) or 1% (2.787). It can be concluded that the Null Hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (HA) was accepted. It can be concluded that the students after being taught by using Picture Series have better writing ability in procedure text than those before being taught writing using picture series in the term of content, organization, structure, vocabulary, and mechanics. From the finding above, it can be concluded that teaching writing using Picture Series affects positively to develop the students’ ability in writing procedure text. Therefore, it is suggested that English teacher should apply Picture Series technique to teach writing procedure text. Key word: Writing, Teaching Writing, Picture Series

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-09

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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