THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING SEQUENCE PICTURES IN TEACHING WRITING OF PROCEDURE TEXT TO THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 1 KAJORAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of the study is to find out whether using sequence pictures in teaching writing of procedure text is effective or not to the seventh grade students of SMP N 1 Kajoran in the academic year of 2012/2013. It is an experimental research. The samples of this study are two classes. The VII F is as an experimental group and VII G as control group. Both of classes consist of 32 students. The researcher uses pretest and post-test as collecting data. This research is a quantitative research, so it needs a data analysis. The result of this study shows that teaching writing by using sequence pictures as media can improve the students’ writing ability in procedure text. The result of the mean score of the post test of experimental group is higher than the mean score of post test of control group (74.06>68.56). In addition, the result of t-value is 2.42. Then, the researcher consults the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) alpha level significance and the degree of freedom is 2.000. It shows that t-value was higher than t-table (2.42>2.00). So the hypothesis is accepted.

(Key words: effectiveness, sequence pictures, teaching writing, procedure text.)