Sri Wahyuni
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Writing is one of the most complex activities in teaching learning
language. In Indonesian classroom, there is a tendency that teaching and learning
English writing is difficult for the students to be mastered. In classroom based on
genre which one of its type is recount, writing it seems quite hard to gain while in
other side recount text is kind of text that retell the past events. If we look at to
that definition, it is confused to understand why the students get difficulties in
writing it. Because of that, the writer tries to find out the solution to help the
students and she chose pictures as teaching aids to increase students’ writing skill
of recount text in the research she has done.
This paper entitled: The Effect of Pictures in Increasing Students’
Writing Skill of Recount Text, had the aim to look for the solution of the
problem as stated above, whether teaching writing skill of recount text using
pictures is effective or not. To reach the purpose, the writer held the treatment of 2
classes of first grade in SMUN 1 Leuwiliang. The numbers of students were 50
students which divided into the experimental class and the control class. Both
consisted of 25 students.
Teaching writing skill of recount text using pictures was better than
teaching writing skill of recount text without it. It was shown by the result of the
scores of students who were taught writing skill of recount text using pictures
were better than the students who were taught writing skill of recount text without
pictures. The mean of the experimental class was 6.8 while in the control class the
mean was 6. The median of the experimental class was 6.8, the mode was 8. In the
control class the median was 6 and the mode was 6. Teaching writing skill of
recount text using pictures was relatively effective. There was a significant
difference between writing skill of both classes. It was described that t table =
2.68, t observed= 2.73. Ho was rejected because t observed > than t table.