THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE CARD IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP WAHIDIYAH KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Abstract

Picture card is a piece of representation of anything is like an object or scene, animal, and general idea which produce by drawing, painting, or photograph for using according to our need. This research is generally to find out the effectiveness of using picture card in writing descriptive text to the seventh grade students of SMP Wahidiyah Kediri in academic year 2019/2020. The researcher use Quasi-experimental applied in VII A. This research had been done in six meeting, the first meeting is pre-test, four meeting is the treatment, and the last meeting is post-test.The researcher uses quantitative method with analyzed the data by using T-test. The result shows that there is significance different between students are taught by using Picture Card and without Picture Card . The data analysis shows that Tcount > Ttable (2,651 > 1,664), Ha is accepted. In the Pre-test, the average score of VII A class (Experiment Class) is 65 and VII B class (Control Class) is 62. In the Post-test, the average score VIIC class (Experiment Class) is 74 and VIID class (Control Class) is 65. The result shows that the average score of Experiment Class is higher than Control Class in Post-test.