IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014

Siraj, Saedah and Allan Bush, W. (2013) IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014. In: "OPTIMIZING OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES TOEXAGGERATEHUMANPOTENT~TOWARDS VIRTUOUS CHARACTER". Proceeding . Buku Baik, Yogyakarta, pp. 319-330. ISBN 978-602-14483-2-8

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Abstract

The objective of the research was to improve the students' skills in writing descriptive texts through digital images at the eighth grade of SMP Ali Maksum Krapyak Yogyakarta in the academic year 2013/2014. It consisted of two main actions and one additional action: 1) giving a model of descriptive text and asking the students to list the difficult words, 2) using digital images in the class, and 3) giving rewards and brainstorming to motivate the students. The research was action research. The members of the research consisted of the researcher, the collaborator, the English teacher, and the students of Grade VIIID. The research was carried out in two cycles. The steps involved reconnaissance, planning, action and observation, and reflection. The data of the research were qualitative in nature supported by quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process and interviewing the English teacher and the students ofVIIID. The qualitative data were in the forms of field notes and interview transcripts were analyzed based on the qualitative data analysis. The pre-test and post-test were conducted to gain the quantitative data. A gain score of pre-test and the post-test was used to analyze the quantitative data that were in the forms of students' writing scores. The findings showed that digital images have three important points. They are practicality, novelty, and clarity. The use of digital images in the research evidently improved the students' skills in writing descriptive texts. The improvements covered: 1) the students consider writing as an easy and interesting lesson, indicated by their enthusiasm to write, 2) students generated their ideas easier into paragraph, 3) and digital images improved the students' skills in writing descriptive texts in terms of grammatical, vocabulary, and sentence structure. The improvement of the students' writing skills can be seen from the result of the gain score. The gain score of the means was 6.65, it could be concluded that there was improvement in the students' skills in writing descriptive texts after the digital images were used in the class. Keywords: improving. skills in writing descriptive texts. digital images

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Keywords: improving. skills in writing descriptive texts. digital images
Subjects: Bahasa Inggris
Divisions: Prosiding (Proceeding)
Depositing User: Sugeng Hariyanto, SIP (sugeng.hariyanto@uin-suka.ac.id)
Date Deposited: 13 Mar 2017 15:47
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2017 15:53
URI: http://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/24271

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