NUZUL QURROTA SUKMA , 2201410070 (2016) THE USE OF INFOGRAPHIC TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ MASTERY IN USING PREPOSITION IN WRITTEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Classroom Action Research of the Seventh Graders of SMPN 3 Ungaran in the Academic Year of 2014/ 2015). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study concerns about the use of infographic as media to improve students’ understanding of using preposition in written descriptive text. It is the popular media spreads in the internet to be used in many fields nowadays. The advantages of using this media are its appearance, simplicity, and usefulness to explain complicated things. The objectives of this study are to identify on how infographic is implemented in learning preposition to improve students’ written descriptive text of the seventh graders of SMPN 3 Ungaran in the academic year of 2014/ 2015, and to describe students’ positive behavior while infographic media is implemented in learning preposition to improve their written descriptive text. The subjects of this study were VII G students that were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. This study was a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles, each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting based on Kemmis Mc. Taggart theory. The data were taken from some procedures such as, observation to collect students’ behavior data, interview to know deeper about the problem faced by the English teacher in classroom, tests (pre-test, cycle 1 test, cycle 2 test, and post-test) to find out the improvement before and after the treatment implemented, and questionnaire. The result of this study showed that there is an improvement of students’ preposition understanding in written descriptive text. It was proven by the increase of the average mark result in pre-test to post-test. The pre-test average mark was 40.67, the cycle 1 test average mark was 48.75, the cycle 2 test average mark was 60.69, and the post-test average mark was 64.17. In addition, the students’ behavior result showed positive improvement. Therefore, it can be concluded that infographic can be one of media in teaching preposition to improve students’ written descriptive text understanding.

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