THE EFFECT OF USING PICTURE MEDIA IN WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF EIGHT GRADE STUDENT AT SMP N 3 SLEMAN

This study is aimed at finding out whether there is a significant difference of the writing skills between the 8th grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman who are taught using media picture series and those who are not using media picture series, in the academic year of 2013/2014. \nThis research was classified as a quasi-experimental study. It involved 64 students from two groups, Class VIII E (32 students) as the experimental group and Class VIII D (32 students) as the control group. The experimental group was taught using media picture serieswhereas the control group was taught using paragraph writing technique. The data were obtained by using two essay writing tests: pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was given to both groups before the treatment and the post-test was given after the treatment. The data of the pre-test and post-test of both groups were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. After the data were tested and found to be homogeneous and normal, the hypothesis was tested using Independent Samples test of T-Test. \nThe result of the research shows that there is a significant difference in the writing ability between the students who are taughtusing and media picture series and those those who arenot using media picture series. It can be seen in the result of the hypothesis testing through Independent Sample test of T-Test. The significance value of 0.000 is less than the significance level of 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05), which means that the data of this study are considered to have a significant difference. Therefore, the hypothesis of this study is accepted. It means that the technique of using games significantly improves the students‟ writing ability in the English teaching and learning process at SMP N 3 Sleman.