Wordless Picture Books: A Media to Facilitate Students in Writing Descriptive Text

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10.2991/assehr.k.210304.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Worldless Picture Books, Media, Student

Abstract

As a productive skill, writing is not easy especially writing in English. However, there are many ways that can be used to train students to write like using various media. One of those media is wordless picture books. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of wordless picture books on junior high school students in writing descriptive texts. Researchers used a quasi-experimental method with two classes; experiment and control. The sample of this study were 64 students of 7th grade in SMPN 1 Candi, Sidoarjo. Test was used as the instruments to get the data. From the results of statistical calculations in the experimental class it is known that the average score of the pre-test is 59.91 while the average score of post-test is 84.91 (the difference in the average score is 25). Meanwhile, the results of statistical calculations in the control class revealed that the average score of pre-test is 58.75 while the average score of post-test is 61.91 (difference in average score is 3.15). The results show that the t-value is higher than the t-table (16.80> 1.999) with a degree of freedom of 72 and a significance level of 5%. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. In short, it can be concluded that there is a better achievement for students who are treated by using wordless picture books in writing descriptive text compared to students who are not treated using wordless picture books.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - N Rochania
AU  - Y Astutik
AU  - V Mandarani
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/08
TI  - Wordless Picture Books: A Media to Facilitate Students in Writing Descriptive Text
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Paris Van Java International Seminar on Health, Economics, Social Science and Humanities (PVJ-ISHESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 126
EP  - 131
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.029
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