THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PICTURE SERIES IN IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING OF RECOUNT TEXT AT THE FIRST GRADE STUDENT OF SMAN 1 PESISIR TENGAH KRUI

Desti Ariska, Flora Flora, Deddy Supriyadi

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti apakah ada peningkatan pada kemampuan siswa dalam menulis setelah penerapan picture series sebagai media dalam pembelajaran menulis teks recount. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian ekperimen. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 36 siswa dari kelas X IPS 3 di SMAN 1 Pesisir Tengah Krui. Tes menulis recount dilakukan sebagai alat dalam pengumpulan data. Tes tersebut diberikan untuk melihat sejauh mana peningkatan kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks recount setelah diadakan perlakuan. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan paired sample t-test dengan tingkat signifikan level p<0.05 menggunakan SPSS versi 16.0. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan pada kemampuan siswa menulis. Hal ini menandakan bahwa picture series dapat di terapkan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis siswa.

 

The aim of this study was to find out whether there is an improvement of the students’ writing ability after the implementation of picture series as a media in teaching writing in recount text. This research was an experimental study. The subjects of this reasearch were 36 students of class X IPS 3 at SMAN 1 Pesisir Tengah Krui. The writing tests of recount were administered in collecting the data. The tests were given to see how far the improvement of the students’ recount text writing ability after the treatment. The data were analyzed by using paired sample t-test with the significant level p<0.05 through SPSS version 16.0. The result reveals that there is an improvement of the students’ writing ability. This suggests that teaching writing using picture series facilitates the students to improve their writing ability.

 

Keywords: writing ability, recount text, picture series


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