COMPETENCE IN WRITING ENGLISH BASED ON USING AND WITHOUT USING PICTURE IN TEACHING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
ABSTRACT: The objective
of the study
is to described
(1) the extent
of students writing
ability based on picture;
(2) the extent
of students writing
ability without using
picture; and (3)
to describe the differences of students writing
competence based on picture and without picture. This study was applied two
post test and
required two randomly
assigned groups of
sample, each group
is designed to a different condition, no pre-test used. The instruments
are a sequence of picture and a
topic without picture, in
which one group
is given a
topic by providing
a sequence of
picture and the other is given a topic without picture. There are two
different topic given, those are, for writing based on picture, with topic
„sending a parcel‟ and for writing without using picture, with the topic „going
to the beach‟. The sample of this study is Class VIIIB. The students
composition are scored by two raters who are the English teacher taught at
class VIII and the writer himself. The students composition are rated randomly
in the process of inter-rater agreement. Both raters rated the students writing
composition independently in order to know the coefficient correlation of both
raters in scoring
the students composition.
The result of the study
showed that (1)
the average score of
students composition in
writing based on
picture of the
three components are classified at „fair to poor‟ level; (2)
the average score of students composition in writing without using picture
for content aspect
is classified at „very poor‟
level and for
organization and vocabulary
aspects are classified at „fair to poor‟ level; and (3) from the computation of
the t-test was found that the t-test is only 0.64.
Key Words:
Competence in writing
English, instructional media
(using picture and
without using picture), and
teaching Junior High School students
Author: H. Noldy Pelenkahu
Journal Code: jppaudsdgg110001
