Pratiwi, Ade (2018) Improving Students’ Skills in Writing Descriptive Text at the First Grade of SMAN 3 Parepare. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Parepare.

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Abstract

This research was carried out at SMAN 3 Parepare. This research were conducted to find out whether picture strip story able improve the students’ skills in writing descriptive text at the experimental class and whether picture strip story able to improve the students’ skill in writing descriptive text better than the teacher’s usual method (inquiry strategy). This skripsi used a quasi-experimental design that used two classes. The population of this skripsi was class X at SMA Negeri 3 Parepare that consist of 134 students. The writer had chosen two classes as the sample by using random sampling technique, one class as the experimental class and one class as the control class where quantity is 54 samples, 27 students of the experimental class and 27 students of the control class. The result showed that the students’ skill in writing descriptive text had an improvement in both of the classes. The improvement could be found out from the students’ mean score. The finding showed that the mean score of the experimental class in post-test (65.15) was greater than pre-test (30.22), whereas the mean score of the control class in post-test (56.04) was greater than pre-test (31.63). The students’ score of pre-test and post-test had calculated for correlation pearson product moment, the result shows that the correlation pearson product moment of the experimental class (0.659 = Strong Correlation) was greater than the correlation product moment of the control class (0.418 = Medium Correlation), it means that the picture strip story able to improve the students’ skill in writing descriptive text better than the teacher’s usual method (inquiry strategy).

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Uncontrolled Keywords: writing, descriptive text, picture strip story
Subjects: 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2003 Language Studies > 200302 English Language
Divisions: Fakultas Tarbiyah > Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Subhan Saleh
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2019 17:53
Last Modified: 08 Dec 2019 17:53
URI: https://repository.iainpare.ac.id/id/eprint/924

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