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Reasons for Choosing the Topic Statements of the Problem

1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic

I choose the topic “The Use of Flashcard and BBC Nature Video to Improve Students‟ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text A Comparative Study” for the following reasons: First, in writing process, the students are expected to write their written product grammatically, express their idea, and make the conclusion as the steps to develop rhetorical devices in the written form.From the matter above we can see that “writing skills are more complex and difficult to teach, it requires mastery not only grammatical and rhetorical devices but also conceptual and judgment” Heaton, 1975:138. Second, descriptive text is one of the texts that eighth grade students have to master both in spoken and written form. It is a kind of text that the writer describes an object. One of the common problems faced by students when they start writing is the question about what to write. The students usually get confused in building the idea. Thus, to help and make students easy to write in English, the teacher can use the media. Third, media have important roles in teaching and learning process. They give motivation to the students to be more interested in learning process. Students are able to understand the message better as the material is presented using interesting media. They also support various kinds of teaching methods and technique, so the students are not bored with the monotonous teaching and learning process. Fourth, the use of videoand flashcard in teaching writing is actually meant to help students catch and express their idea easily. Without any medium, when teacher asks the students to write, students will get difficulty in writing sentences or paragraph because the students may need a very long time to find the topic.

1.3 Statements of the Problem

The problems that are discussed in this study are: 1 Is there any significant difference in the learning achievement between the students taught descriptive text by using BBC Nature videos and those who were taught by using flashcards as media? 2 Which is more effective BBC Nature video or flashcard as media to improve the ability of the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sawangan Magelang in the academic year of 20122013 in writing descriptive text?

1.4 Objectives of the Study

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