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
Based on the research problems above, the objectives in this study are:
1 to investigate whether there is any significant difference of ability in
writing descriptive text between the students taught by using BBC Nature video and those taught by using flashcard as media of the
eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sawangan Magelang in the academic year of 20122013.
2 to investigate the effectiveness of teaching using BBC Nature video
and flashcard to improve the ability in writing descriptive text of the
eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sawangan Magelang in the academic year of 20122013.
1.5 Hypothesis
There are two hypotheses in this study. The first hypothesis is the working hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis Ha. The alternate hypothesis in this
study is “There is a significant difference of the effectiveness and learning
achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using Flashcard and those who are taught by using BBC Nature video
” The second hypothesis is the null hypothesis Ho. The null hypothesis in
this study is “There is a no significant difference of effectiveness and learning achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using
Flashcard and those who are taught by using BBC Nature video ”.
1.6 Significance of the Study
In this section, I will explain the significance of this study based on the education scope, first is the students in Junior High School in general, second is the teacher
in general, and the last is the students of English Education Program of English Department of UNNES.
1.6.1 The Students of Junior High School in general
The result of the study may help the students learn English in an interesting way and improve their ability in creating descriptive text through Video or Flash Card
as follow :
1 Students are able to identify the language features of descriptive text
2 Students are able to write an essay in the form of descriptive text.
1.6.2 The Teacher
The teacher can use Video or Flash Card as an alternative medium to teach English to the Junior High School students.
1.6.3 The Students of Education Program English Department of UNNES
The next researcher can use this research result as a reference in writing the final project on the scope of the use of media in writing descriptive text.
1.7 Limitation
I limit the scope of study so that the problems are not too wide and the study is effective, which is the study will investigate which medium is more effective
between BBC Nature video and flashcards 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.
1.8 Outline of the Report
This final projectreport is divided into five chapters, and each chapter has several sub chapters. Chapter I is introduction which consists of the background of the
study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, hypothesis, significance of the study, limitation, outline of the report.
Chapter II deals with the review of related literature. This chapter consists of review of previous study, review of the Theoritical Study, and the Theoritical
Framework. Then, chapter III deals with the method of investigation. It consists of
research design, subject of the study, instrument of the study, the steps of research, methods of collecting the data, and methods of analyzing the data.
Chapter IV is research findings and discussion. It deals with significant difference between the results the pre-test and the post-test, normality and
homogeneity, mean of the first and second experimental group, test of significant, mean of difference test, and discussion of the research findings.
Finally, chapter V, I give conclusions of the analysis andsome suggestions.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents the review of related literature. This chapter consists of review of previous studies, review of the Theoritical Study, and the Theoritical
Framework.
2.1 Review of Previous Studies
Writing is one of language skills that is interesting to be researched. Many scientific studies have been conducted on this skill. Based on the studies which
have been done before, teaching English by using media, especiallyvideos and pictures can improve students‟ writing. Here are some previous studies related to
this study which are relevant in teaching English using videos. Berk 2009 held a research entitled Multimedia Teaching with Video
Clips : TV, Movies, YouTube, and mtvU in the College Classroom. The objective of this research was to answer the question “How can video clips embedded in
multimedia presentations be used to improve learning?” and the result is really significant that Video clips are a major resource for teaching the Net Generation
and for drawing on their multiple intelligences and learning style to increase the success of every student. At the end of the research, he concludes that the clips
can add a dimension to teaching that may change how we teach forever: our view of teaching and our students will never be the same.
