The Effect of Using Picture Media on Students’ Writing Skill At Grade X of SMAN 1 Pulau Rakyat in Academic Year of 2019/2020

Abstract

The study is to find out the effect of picture media which can give the effect to students’ writing skill in English learning especially in writing advertisement. The objective of the research is to find student’s writing skill through the use of the picture media. The research was conducted in the X class of SMA NEGERI 1 PULAU RAKYAT in Academic Year of 2019/2020. The method of research is quantitative research. The population of this research is all students of grade X of Sma Negeri 1 Pulau Rakyat In Academic Year of 2019/2020. There were five classes consist of X¹, X², X³, X⁴, and X⁵, the total of the students are 150 students. The sample of the research are 60 students. They were divided into two groups: grade X³as an Experiment group by using picture media was and control group using conventionally group. The reason choose this title because the researcher to know the effect of using picture media in writing advertisement of students. The data was taken out by implementing a test related with writing the use of picture media. The result shows that the student’s in writing skill through the use of picture media is satisfactory. The result shows the mean of experimental group was 73.6 and in control group was 6.00. Then the validity of the test in control group was 0.60 (enough) and the experimental group was 0.82 (very high). Teaching by using picture media has a significant influence, the result of the t-score was higher in the value of t-table with the significant (30 >1.67). It means that, the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. So, the students who were taught by using picture media got better writing skill. The findings suggest that teachers should consider using picture media in teaching writing for their students.