IMPROVING THE ABILITY OF THE GRADE VIII STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 6 PASANGKAYU IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH PICTURES

Suriono Santoso. A 121 10 089. Improving the Ability of the VIII Grade Students of
SMP Negeri 6 Pasangkayu in Writing Descriptive Paragraph through Pictures.
Under supervision of Sriati Usman and Budi.
The objective of this research is to find out the use of pictures technique can
improve the ability of students’ writing descriptive paragraph or not. The research
design was pre-experimental research with a pretest and posttest design. The
population of this research was the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Pasangkayu.
The sample of this research was selected by using purposive sampling technique. The
instrument of data collection was tests. The data were analyzed statistically in order
to find out the significant difference of the students improvement in pretest and
posttest. After analyzing the data, the researcher found out that the result of pretest
was 35.99 and posttest was 53.55. By applying 0.05 level of significance and 29 (30-
1) degree of freedom (df). It is found out that t-counted value (15.66) was greater than ttable value (2.045). The results of data analysis indicated that the hypothesis is
accepted. It means that the implementation of pictures media can improve the
students’ writing ability.
Keywords: writing, paragraph, Ability, pictures.