THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING BROCHURE IN TEACHING WRITING OF PROCEDURE TEXT TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 8 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

English is one of the languages that is used widely in the world. People use it to communicate with other people from many parts of the world. There are four language skills which should be mastered in learning English, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing is an important skill. Teaching writing requires some important factors to support the classroom activities. One of the factors is the method, to increase the students’ writing ability, the method should be based on the students’ interest and competence. To improve the writing ability of the first grade students in SMA N 8 Purworejo, guided brochure can be used as the alternative for the writing method. The aim of this research is to know whether there is effectiveness in using brochure in teaching writing of procedure text to the first-grade students of the SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher took 64 students of the first grade of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 as the sample. The researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. The researcher use brochure to teach writing of procedure text. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of the research shows that teaching writing using brochure is effective and gives a positive contribution toward the writing ability of the firstgrade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. It was found that the result of t-value is 3.56. Based on the 0.05 significance level. The value of t-table is 2.021, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table that is 3.56>2.021.