THE EFFECT OF USING PICTURE MEDIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 4 TARAKAN
This study aimed to determine whether the use of image media had an impact on improvement of the writing results of seventh grade students at SMPN 4 Tarakan. This study used an experimental design and seventh grade students at SMPN 4 Tarakan as the population. The number of samples in this study were 31 students from class VII-11 who were selected by purposive sampling tecnique. There were three stages in this research, namely pretest, treatment and posttest. The result showed that there was a difference in the mean score between the pretest and posttest. This was evidenced by the result of the students’ mean score. Their scores were 60.42 at pretest and 77.84 at posttest. It could be seen that the increase in the mean score of students at the posttest was higher than in the pretest and indicated a significant difference in the students’ writing scores between the pretest and posttest. In addition, the result of the paired sample t-test showed that the t-test of 7.955 was higher than the t-table 2.042. Based on the test results, the researcher concluded that the use of image media proved to be effective in improving the learning outcomes of the seventh grade students to write the descriptive text at SMPN 4 Tarakan.