The Theoritical Hypothesis THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

b. The Implementation of Utilizing Photograph as a Visual Medium in Teaching Writing Recount Text. In teaching writing, the students would be guided by the teacher in doing writing activity. There are three stages of teaching namely opening activity, main activity and closing activity. 1 Opening Activity In this activity, the teacher greeted the students. After that the teacher checked the attendance list. Then, the teacher made sure the students were ready to learn. Next, the teacher activated the students’ background knowledge related to the lesson that would be discussed by asking some questions to the students. After that, the teacher explained the students about the goal of learning that had to be reachead by them, the students are required to be able to write a recount text in the context of daily life. 2 Main Activity The first, the teacher explained about the definition, communicative purpose, generic structures, language features and how to write recount text. The second, the teacher showed recount text that written based on the photograph as the example. The third, the teacher asked the students to observe the example the recount text. The last, the teacher asked the students write recount text based on their own photograph. 3 Closing Activity This stage, the teacher concluded the lesson with the students. The teacher made sure that all of the students were participating in concluding the lesson by giving their own opinion. If the teacher found the students who still confused or had problem the teacher had to give further explanation. 3. Post-test The post- test conducted in the last meeting to measure students’ skill in writing recount text after getting the treatment. The researcher gave a writing test. The students both in experimental and control class asked to write a recount text. The topic that was given to the students both in experimental and control class is the same. The topic is about “My Unforgetable MomentEventExperience that Happened in My Life”

C. Population and Sample

The population of this research is the eighth grade students of SMP Nusantara Plus Ciputat in academic year 20142015 which consist of 4 classes. The total number of population is 146 students. Class 8-1 consists of 39 students, class 8-2 consists of 34 students, class 8-3 consists of 36 and class 8-4 consists of 37 students. In selecting the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling technique. This technique is used to determine the sample with certain consideration 3 . There are two classes as the sample. The first class is 8-3 as the experiment class and the second class is 8-2 as the control class. The researcher choose 8-3 and 8-2 as the sample, because the researcher was suggested by the English teacher of SMP Nusantara Plus Ciputat to do the research at both classes.

D. The Research Instrument

The research instrument used in this research is a test. The researcher gave the writing test in pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was given to the students to measure their skill in writing recount text before the treatment while the post-test was given to the students to measure their writing skill in recount text after getting the treatment. The topic that was given to the students both in experimental and control class is the same. The topic of pre-test is about “My Experience When I Went to My Hometown”, and the topic of post-test is about “My Unforgetable MomentEventExperience that Happ ened in My Life”

E. The Technique of Data Collection

The technique of collecting data in this research used quantitative data. The quantitative data obtained from the students’ score in pre-test and post-test. In 3 Sugiono, Metode Penelitian Kuantitatif, Kualitataif dan RD, Bandung: Alfabeta, 2012, p. 124.