Abstract
The objective of the research was to find out whether or not the use of juxtaposing pictures can improve the students’ writing ability especially in writing description. The researchers applied a pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and one group post-test design. The subject of the research was the second year students of SMAN 3 Enrekang in academic year 2017-2018. The sample consisted of 32 students of XI IPA 1. The data were collected through writing test (pretest and post-test). To find out the effectiveness of juxtaposing pictures in improving writing ability, the researcher applied t-test analysis. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The value of t-test (9.09) was greater than the t-table (2.039) and degree of freedom (df) = 31. It is concluded that juxtaposing pictures is effective in improving the students’ writing ability in writing description.
Highlights
Writing is an English skill defined as how to express ideas on a paper to form words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraph
Referring to the statements above, the researchers tried to study about the improvement of descriptive writing skill by using pictures juxtaposing pictures
The scope of the study was limited to improvement for descriptive writing skill of students through juxtaposing pictures
Summary
Writing is an English skill defined as how to express ideas on a paper to form words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraph. Referring to the statements above, the researchers tried to study about the improvement of descriptive writing skill by using pictures juxtaposing pictures. Juxtaposing represents our tendencies in perceiving something which compares a numbers of pictures that placed side by side For these reasons, the researchers took the title “Using Juxtaposing Pictures in Improving Descriptive Writing Skill of the Second Year Students of SMAN 3 Enrekang in academic year 2017-2018”. The scope of the study was limited to improvement for descriptive writing skill of students through juxtaposing pictures. It focused on five criteria or five components of good writing namely content, mechanics, organization, language use, and vocabulary.
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