Muhammad Gunarso, 2201406602 (2010) A Comparative Study on Student’s Writing Ability Using Photographs and Leaflets in Writing Descriptive Text (An Experimental Study at the Eight Grade Students of SMP N 2 Limpung, Batang in the Academic Year of 2010/2011. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is an experimental study that aims to investigate whether there is any significant differences of the achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using photographs and those who are taught by using leaflets with an assumption that these media can help them to interpret the content of the course. The subjects of the study were the eight grade students of SMP N 2 Limpung, Batang in the academic year of 2010/2011. There were two groups that were given different treatments. The first group was the control group who was taught by using photographs, and the second group was the experimental group who was taught by using leaflets.There were six meetings for each class. One meeting was for a pre test,four meetings were for treatments and one meeting for a post test. In the test, the students of the control group used the photographs and the experimental group used the leaflets to write a descriptive text based on the topic provided: animal. The result of this research showed that the pre‐test average scores of the two groups were nearly the same. The means of the pre‐tests were 57.15 (the control group) and 57.60 (the experimental group). The slight difference between the two groups indicated that they were homogenous. After the control and the experimental groups were given different treatments, the score of the two groups increased. The means turned into 74.68 for the control group and 78.50 for the experimental group. The improvement were 17.53 (the control group), and 20.90 (the experimental group). The result of t‐test based on the difference of two means revealed that the obtained value (3.90) was higher than t‐table value for α = 5% (2.00). It means that there was a significant difference between the students who were taught with photographs and those who were taught with leaflets. Based on the result above, it is concluded that in this study leaflets are more effective than photographs to improve students’ ability in writing a descriptive text. It is suggested that leaflet can be used as alternative media for teaching descriptive text. Further research is suggested to be carried out for a better understanding of this field.

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