THE EFFECT OF WORDLESS PICTURE BOOK TO TEACH WRITING AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 1 PLOSOKLATEN
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SITI NUR HALIMAHUniversitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
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Writing is the process of delivering ideas into sentences and paragraphs. In writing prosess students identify the ideas, develop the ideas into sentences, and arrange sentences into paragraph. One of the strategies that can be used in teaching writinng is wordless picture book. In this strategy, there are some pictures in book. The students describe the picture, they will get ideas, then develop become sentence, and sentences into parargaphs. This research answers the question: is there any significant difference in students’ writing ability before and after being taught by using wordless picture book at the eight grade students of SMPN 1 Plosoklaten? This research used quantitative approach and experimental method with one-group pre-test and post-test. The sample of the research was eight I class consisting 21 students. In collecting the data, the researcher held twice meetings which involved pre-test, twice treatments and post-test with descriptive material. Then the data was analyzed using SPSS version 21 by t-test. The researcher used t-test because the researcher wanted to know about the significant difference from pretest and posttest. The result of post-test showed that the students’ writing ability increased after being taught wordless picture book. It was proven by the mean score post-test (59.2381) which was higher than mean score pre-test (40.2381). Furthermore T-score (8,046) > T-table 5% (2,086). It means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. It can be concluded that there is significant effect on students’ writing ability after being taught using wordless picture book at the eight grade students of SMPN 1 Plosoklaten at eight I class in academic Year 2017/2018.
Key words: Wordless Picture Book, Writing
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