CUE CARDS TO TEACH WRITING OF ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

Abstract

Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian ini bermaksud menjawab apakah Cue Card mampu meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks deskriptif. Maka, dilakukanlah penelitian pre-experimental kepada siswa kelas 7 SMPN1. Sampel penelitian ini adalah kelas VII A, berjumlah 36 orang. Peneliti menjadikan mereka semua sebagai subjek dari penelitian ini. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah dengan menggunakan pre test dan post test dalam bentuk tes tulis. Pertama, peneliti memberikan pre test diawal kegiatan. Lalu, peneliti memberikan dua kali perlakuan diwaktu yang berbeda. Terakhir, barulah post test dilaksanakan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan hasil nilai rata-rata siswa pada post test sebesar 62.22, yang mana lebih tinggi dibanding pre test (22.08). Hasil ini masuk kategori kurang sampai rata-rata. Hasil penelitian menandakan bahwa cue card merupakan media yang bermanfaat dalam mengajar menulis teks deskriptif. Akhirnya, media dalam penelitian ini dapat digunakan dengan bermacam cara, sehingga guru dapat meningkatkan teknik mengajarnya di kelas.

Kata Kunci: Paragraph Deskriptive, Mengajar, dan Menulis

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to answer whether Cue Cards increases the ability of the student in writing descriptive text. Then, the writer conducted a pre-experimental research to the seventh year students of "SMPN 1". The sample was class VII A, which consists of 36 students. The researcher took all of them as the subject of the study. The technique of data collection is pre-test and post-test carried out in written test. First, the writer gave a pre-test. It was conducted at the beginning of the research. Second, the writer gave twice treatment in different times. Lastly, post-test was conducted. The result indicates the student"™s mean score achievement in post-test is 62.22, higher than their mean score in pre-test (22.08). It is categorized as poor to average. The research result shows that cue card is one of the useful media for teaching descriptive text writing. Finally, the media in this research is useful for various ways to teach descriptive text writing, and the teachers can improve their teaching by using cue cards media in classroom.

Keywords: Descriptive paragraph, teaching, and writing,