1.6 The Significance of the Study
The researcher determines three points as the significance of the study as follows: 1
In theoretical, this study is expected to be one of the references medium to improve the students’ writing skill.
2 In pedagogical, this study is useful as the utilisation of technology as a
medium in learning process. 3
In practical, this study is useful for teachers to consider their teaching process and to be more creative teacher in teaching writing descriptive text.
Then, students are also expected to be more creative in writing descriptive text.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
The study about utilisation of media in writing descriptive text is so complex, thus in this study the researcher limits the discussion in
describing people’ characters. The researcher only makes experiment whether the use of 2D animation-based
media at the eighth grade students of SMP Kesatrian 1 Semarang in the academic year of 20142015 improve the students
’ ability in learning descriptive text particularly in describing people’s characters or not.
1.8 Definition of Term
The researcher provides some terms related to the topic in this study. They are 2D animation-based media as a learning aid, writing, and descriptive text. According
to Indrojarwo 2009:5 asserted that for presenting messages to the students, messengers have two forms that are words including texts and graphics including
static graphics illustrations and photos and dynamic graphics animation and videos. Animation is dynamic graphic design that can be useful for learning with
multimedia. In this study 2D animation-based is used to illustrate object that is described and in which there are some materials that related to the writing
descriptive text. According to the definition above, it could be concluded that 2D animation-
based media is a medium in writing descriptive text that helps the students describe the object particularly in describing people both in physical appearances and
characters.
1.9 Outline of the Report
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