THE USE OF PICTURE SERIES FOR TEACHING WRITING OF RECOUNT TEXT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26418/jppk.v7i8.27416Abstract
Abstract
This research is aimed to investigate whether or not the use of picture series affect the students"™ writing of recount text and to find out the effect size of the improvement of students"™ writing of recount text after being taught using picture series of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Pontianak. The form of this research is pre-experimental study with one group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Pontianak, while the sample is class X A that consists of 32 students. The research findings show that the mean score of pre-test is 59.41 while the mean score of post-test is 69.16. It shows that picture series improves the students"™ writing of recount text. The result of this research shows that t-test is higher than t-critical the value is 5.512.042. It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can be concluded that there is a highly significant effect of the use of picture series for teaching writing of recount text on the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Pontianak.
Keywords: Picture Series, Teaching Writing, Recount Text