The Effectiveness of Picture in Teaching Writing at SMP Al-Washliyah 31 Medan

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the effectiveness of using picture in teaching writing of descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP Al- Washliyah 31 Medan in the academic year of 2020/2021.In this research, the researcher used experimental desaign took two class as the sample. The subject research is class VIII which consists of 40 students. The instrument used in this thesis was test. In collecting the data, the writer used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, thewriter gave treatment. The result of this research showed the t-observe value was higher than t-table (5,40>2,00). The hypothesis alternative was accepted. It means that there is a significant effect of using media picture on student’s writing ability.Based on the result finding, it can be concluded that the data presented is there is an effectiveness of using picture series towards students’ writing ability in descriptive text.