<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014"^^ . "The objective of the research was to improve the students' skills in writing descriptive texts through\r\ndigital images at the eighth grade of SMP Ali Maksum Krapyak Yogyakarta in the academic\r\nyear 2013/2014. It consisted of two main actions and one additional action: 1) giving a model of\r\ndescriptive text and asking the students to list the difficult words, 2) using digital images in the\r\nclass, and 3) giving rewards and brainstorming to motivate the students.\r\nThe research was action research. The members of the research consisted of the researcher, the\r\ncollaborator, the English teacher, and the students of Grade VIIID. The research was carried out in\r\ntwo cycles. The steps involved reconnaissance, planning, action and observation, and reflection.\r\nThe data of the research were qualitative in nature supported by quantitative data. The qualitative\r\ndata were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process and interviewing the English\r\nteacher and the students ofVIIID. The qualitative data were in the forms of field notes and interview\r\ntranscripts were analyzed based on the qualitative data analysis. The pre-test and post-test were\r\nconducted to gain the quantitative data. A gain score of pre-test and the post-test was used to\r\nanalyze the quantitative data that were in the forms of students' writing scores.\r\nThe findings showed that digital images have three important points. They are practicality, novelty,\r\nand clarity. The use of digital images in the research evidently improved the students' skills in\r\nwriting descriptive texts. The improvements covered: 1) the students consider writing as an easy\r\nand interesting lesson, indicated by their enthusiasm to write, 2) students generated their ideas\r\neasier into paragraph, 3) and digital images improved the students' skills in writing descriptive texts\r\nin terms of grammatical, vocabulary, and sentence structure. The improvement of the students'\r\nwriting skills can be seen from the result of the gain score. The gain score of the means was 6.65,\r\nit could be concluded that there was improvement in the students' skills in writing descriptive texts\r\nafter the digital images were used in the class.\r\nKeywords: improving. skills in writing descriptive texts. digital images"^^ . "2013-12-19" . . . "Buku Baik"^^ . . "Buku Baik"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "W."^^ . "Allan Bush"^^ . "W. Allan Bush"^^ . . "Saedah"^^ . "Siraj"^^ . "Saedah Siraj"^^ . . . . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014 (Text)"^^ . . . . . "Siraj, Saedah and Allan Bush, W. (2013) IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH.pdf"^^ . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "IMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE\r\nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF\r\nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN\r\nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #24271 \n\nIMPROVING THE STUDENTS' SKILLS IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE \nTEXTS THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF \nSMP ALI MAKSUM PONDOK PESANTREN KRAPYAK BANTUL IN \nTHE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/2014\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Bahasa Inggris" . .