The effectiveness of using personal photographs in teaching writing recount text at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objective of this study were to know the students’ ability in writing recount text and to find out whether the use of personal photographs is effective or not in teaching writing recount text at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017. The method used in this study was quantitative method. The design of this study was quasi-experimental design. Technique of analyzing data used quantitative analyze to find means of pre-test and post-test. The subject of this study was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017. The researcher took 64 students as the sample. They were 32 students of X MIA 1 as the experimental group and 32 students of X MIA 3 as the control group. The control group was taught using picture and the experimental group was taught using personal photographs. The researcher used written test to get data. The result test was analyzed using t-test formula and SPSS. The research finding shows that t-value sig.(2-tailed) is higher than t-test by using 5% alpha of significant (0.05 > 0.00). Based on the result above, it meant that the use of personal photographs in teaching writing of recount text is effective at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2016/2017.