Chart 4.8 Students’ Writing Style
Many of them were poor in style of the text. However, in the post- test, there was significant improvement.The pre-test score of the control group was
67.33 and the post-test was 84.67 It meant the students had made 12.67points
of improvement. The pre-test score of the experimental group was 68.67 and the post test was 94. It meant the students of experimental group got higher
improvement than the control group. Itimproved25.33points.
4 Students‟ Content in Writing
The students‟ ability in producing good content in writing was generally weak.
In the pretest, they could not understand what they had to do, so they only produced very simple sentences like
“The cat has four legs.”. The treatment given to the experimental group and the control group were able to improve
their vocabulary and their ability in combining content as well. BBC Nature videos showed them many new vocabularies related to the topics than the flash
cards. Using BBC Nature video was also able to stimulate their creativity in building their ideas and constructing good written content.
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In the post- test, the students‟ content in writing showed an improvement.
The following table and chart show the results.
Table 4.13 Students’ Writing Content
TEST ASPECT CONTENT
CONTROL EXPERIMENTAL PRE TEST
64 67.33
POST TEST 78
84.67 RANGE
14 17.34
Chart 4.9 Students’ Writing Content
In the post- test of control group and experimental group, the students writing contentimproved.The pre-test score of control group was 64 and the
post-test was 78 It meant the students writing content ability
improved14points. The pre-test score of control group was 67.33 and the post-
test was 84.67 It meant the students ability in writing content
improved17.34points.
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5 Student‟s Mechanic in Writing
In the post-test, the students‟ content in writing showed an improvement. The
following table and chart show the results.
Table 4.14 Students’ Writing Mechanic
TEST ASPECT MECHANIC
CONTROL EXPERIMENTAL PRE TEST
60 62
POST TEST 70.67
78.67 RANGE
10.67 16.67
Chart4.10 Students’ Writing Mechanic
In the post- test, there were also an improvement, the experimental group had higher score than the control group.The pre-test score of the control group
was 60.00 and the post-test was 70.67 It meant the students writing mechanic
abilityimproved10.67points. The pre-test score of the experimental group was
62.00 and the post-test was 78.67 It meant the students ability in writing
mechanic improved16.67points.
From all of those aspects, BBC Nature videos had made much improvement on style , content and form than the use of flashcards. But, both of BBC Nature
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video and flashcards did not make a significant improvement on grammar and mechanic, so the teacher must also concern on those kinds of aspects.
The mean of the pre-test of the control and experimental group were only 65.07 and 65.47. It was lower than the criterion of the assessment from the
minimal standard of the school that was 68. The mean of the post test were 76.67 and 84.00 meaning that those higher than the pre-test and higher than the
standard score. It increased 11.60 and 18.53 point from the pre-test. From those results, it could be concluded that the activities during the study
ran well. In the end of the test, the students could eliminate their difficulties in writing, especially in writingdescriptive text. The improvement of the students
proved that BBC Nature videos and flash cardsare effective to be used in teaching writing a descriptive text to the eighth grade students of junior high
school. We could also see that there was a significant effect of teaching writing descriptive text usingBBC Nature videos as the media, thatthey were able to
make the students ‟ ability in making composition more improved than teaching
writing with flashcards.
4.6 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Flash Cards
