THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TOURISM BROCHURE AS MEDIA TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 10 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The aim of this research is to know whether there is effectiveness of using tourism brochure as media in teaching writing ability of descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 10 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013.In this research, the reseacher took two classes as the sample. One class was experimental group and other as control group. Each class consists of 31 students. So, the number of sample was 62 students. While the instrument that was used in this thesis, was test. In collecting the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, the reseacher give treatment for experimental group using tourism brochure as media and common way for control group. After getting enough data, the researcher calculated the data using t-test polled- variance. After collecting the data and analyzing them, the researcher presents the result of the research.The result of the mean score of post test of experimental group is higher than the mean score of post test of control group (68.06>64.00). In addition, the result of t-value is 2.04. 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 is higher than t-table ( 2.04>2.000). It means that  using tourism brochure as media in teaching writing of descriptive text at the tenth grade students of SMA N 10 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 is effective.

Keywords : Effectiveness, tourism brochure, writing ability, descriptive text