THE EFFECT OF USING ANIMAL PICTURE ON STUDENTS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY THE SECOND YEAR OF SMP SWASTA NUSANTARA LUBUK PAKAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019

Abstract

In this research, the writer saw that the students were difficult in writing a descriptive, they don’t know how the steps or procedures, they don’t have motivated for writing especially writing descriptive text, then the teacher is rarely use the using picture as a media in teaching process. Therefore, the writer hope that there is any significant effect of applying using picture consist animal picture to improve the student’s writing skill. The writer determined to apply the using picture media to improve the students skill in descriptive text. The purpose in this research wants to make the differences between by using animal picture and without using animal picture. The writer conduct this research on the second year of SMP Swasta Nusantara Lubuk Pakam. They are devide into two class. The control class is 30 students and experimental 30 students. And the total sample were 60 students. The highest score by using animal picture was 100 and without using animal picture was 45 scores. The t-test shows that the t-observed is greatest than t-table or it can be showed as follow: t-observed is 5.06 and t-table is 2.00. It means that t-observed is the greatest than t-table (5.06 > 2.00) with df 58 at the level of significance ά 0,05. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can conclude that in the teaching and learning process by using animal picture like animals in writing descriptive text is effective to use.