Reasons for Choosing the Topic Research Questions Research Hypothesis Purposes of the Study

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1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic

In the teaching and learning of descriptive text teacher sometimes uses only one visual aid or media to teach their students. Actually, there are many ways to teach descriptive text. I hope that the teacher can teach descriptive text with many variants of media or visual aids. The reasons for me to choose the topic are: 1 Writing in English is a difficult language skill for junior high school students. 2 Many students of junior high school seem to have problems in writing descriptive text. 3 The student’s world is still full of enjoyable activities. If English is taught interestingly, it will raise the students’ interest to study. 4 In the Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pelajaran KTSP, the students are demanded to be able to produce some texts including descriptive text.

1.3 Research Questions

The problems that will be solved in this study are: 1 Is there any significant difference of the achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using photographs and those who are taught by using leaflets? 7 1 Which one is more effective to improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text at eight grade students of SMPN 2 Limpung, Batang in the academic year of 20102011, teaching using photographs or leaflets?

1.4 Research Hypothesis

Based on the research question above, there are two hypotheses in this study that are working hypothesis and null hypothesis. Working hypothesis H1: There is a significant difference of achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using photographs and those who are taught by using leaflets. Null hypothesis Ho: There is no a significant difference of achievements in writing descriptive texts of students who are taught by using photographs and those who are taught by using leaflets.

1.5 Purposes of the Study

The objectives of this study are: 1 To find out the significant difference of students’ achievements in the improvement of students’ writing ability to produce descriptive text for those who are taught with the use of photographs and those who are taught with the use of leaflets. 2 To compare the effectiveness of teaching using photographs and leaflets to improve the ability in writing descriptive text of the eight grade students of 8 SMPN 2 Limpung, Batang in the academic year of 20102011.

1.6 Limitation of the Study