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 MTs N Purworejo in the academic
year of 2015/2016.
In this research, the researcher took one class as the sample. The subject research
is class VIII which consists of 28 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, the
writer gave treatment. After getting enough data, the researcher calculated the data using ttest.
Based on the computation, the mean score of pre-test is 70.50 and the mean of
post-test 80.54. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the t-value is -5.989
consulted to the t-table at the -2.05 significance level. It means that t-value is lower than ttable,
that is -5.989 < -2.05. So, it can be stated that the hypothesis “the use of picture in
teaching writing of descriptive text at the eighth grade students of MTs N Purworejo in the
academic year of 2015/2016 is accepted”.
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.
The researcher hopes that the result of this study will be useful for students and English
teacherin education field. The English teacher should improve their competencies by
improving their material mastery, making use of appropriate and interesting media, so, their
students’ English ability will be developed.
