The Influence of the Picture and Picture Model on the Students’ Ability of Class VIII to Determine Explanatory Text Structure at MTs Al Washliyah Perpaudangan, Indonesia

Abstract

This research was conducted with the aim of finding out how the picture and picture learning model affects the students’ abilities of class VIII at MTs Al-Washliyah in identifying the structure of explanatory text. For population as well as samples, there were 44 students taken randomly from class VIII-2 (22 students as the experimental group), and from VIII-1 (22 students as the control group). This research involved experimental methodology and an essay test as a data collection method was used. The findings showed that each student provided thoughtful and unique responses to each question. The experimental class got an average score of 82 (very good), while the average score in the control class was 63 (fair). The research data were calculated and processed, so that tcount > ttable (8.23 > 1.682) was obtained; therefore, Ha agreed. In other words, the students’ ability to recognize the structure of explanatory text was greatly influenced by the model. Keywords: explanatory text, learning model, picture and picture