The Effectiveness of Using Brochure In Teaching Writing of Procedure Text To The Tenth Grade Students of Sma N 8 Purworejo in The Academic Year of 2012/2013

Abstract

The aim of this research is to know whether there is effectiveness in using brochure in teaching writing of procedure text to the first-grade students of the SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher took 64 students of the first grade of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 as the sample. The researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. The researcher use brochure to teach writing of procedure text. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test. The result of the research shows that teaching writing using brochure is effective and gives a positive contribution toward the writing ability of the first-grade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. It was found that the result of t-value is 3.56. Based on the 0.05 significance level. The value of t-table is 2.021, the computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table that is 3.56>2.021.

Key Words: Brochure, teaching, writing, procedure text.