The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Five-Minutes Activities

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4.2.2 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Five-Minutes Activities

in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text at the Seventh Grade Students of Junior High School Teacher as a facilitator should give facility to students in learning process. It is important for the teacher to arrange his future activities before teaching in the classroom. Therefore, a teacher should be able to choose the effective methods of teaching to expose every particular material, since all methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Five-Minute activities is one of the alternative methods which is valuable in supporting the instructional procces. If it is applied properly, it will be an effective teaching aid through the information provided to help the students in writing descriptive text. The advantages of the Five-Minute Activities as the alternative method are as follows: 1 The use of Five-Minute Activities can gain students’ motivation and stimulate their interest and fun in writing. 2 The students can also be more creative when they want to describe people who are close with them because they can imagine their parts, characteristics, and qualities easily. 3 Using Five-Minutes Activities will be very useful for teachers since it helps them in introducing and explaining about the descriptive text more easily. Teachers will easily help their students in building ideas of what they are to write and explore it into an appropriate text. Inspite of the advantages, there are some dissadvantages of using Five- Minutes Activities in teaching writing descriptive, they are: 92 1 Using Five-Minutes Activities should be prepared and organized carefully in order to reach the beneficial of using the method. 2 If a teacher does not have any proper ability in mastering the material and classroom management when he or she is using Five Minute Activities, it will make the process of teaching and learning stuck in the middle of process. 93

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

This chapter contains the conclusion of the investigation together with the suggestion for the improvement of student’s ability in writing a descriptive text.

5.1 Conclusion

According to the result of data interpretation and discussion in the previous chapter, I draw the following conclusions: 1 The students’ improvement during the teaching and learning activity by using Five-Minutes Activities as an alternative method in teaching writing descriptive is good. It is supported by the result of the pre-test that was lower 64.11 than the post-test 79.68. The students’ post-test increased 15,58 point from the pre-test. It could be concluded that the activities during the study ran well. The improvement of the students’ result proved that Five- Minutes Activities is effective to be used in teaching writing a descriptive text to the seventh grade students of junior high school. 2 From the result of calculation, it could be concluded that there is significant difference result between teaching descriptive text by using Five-Minutes Activity and teaching descriptive text by using pictures in SMP N 6 Tegal. The result of t-test was 7.2841 and t table was 1.84. It means that t value is higher than t table 7.2841 1.84. Based on that calculation, there is significant