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idea, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics, and also style and quality of expression. See Appendix 11

3.8 Methods of Analyzing Data

After the data was collected, the next step was to analyze the data collected. The data collected from pre – test and post – test that have been given. In order to analyze data, the writer used several steps as follow: 1 Tabulating data. 2 Applying the appropriate formula for analyzing data. After tabulating the data, the last step in analyzing the data is applying the appropriate formula. In this study, the writer analyzed the normality test, the homogeneity test, and t-test. In order to simplify the analysis, the writer used SPSS to calculate the normality test, homogeneity test, and also t-test. 3 Interpreting the result Because of this research is a quantitative research, the data has to be interpreted. CHAPTER IV DATA FINDING AND DISCUSSION This chapter presents the general description of the study, the detailed results, the discussion of the study, and also the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic song lyrics and pictures in teaching narrative text.

4.1 General Description

After conducting the research, the writer will describe pre test, treatment, and post test activities in this part.

4.1.1 Pre Test

Before experiment was conducted, the students in both of groups were given pre test. The test that was used in the pre test was writing test. Pre test is aimed to know the prior knowledge of students in writing narrative text. The pre test of control group was conducted on 19 th November 2013 and pre test of experimental group was conducted on 20 th November 2013. Every student of both of groups was asked to write a narrative text based on the topic given. The topic of the narrative text was love. The students were given free hand to choose one of the familiar stories and wrote it by their own words or use their imagination to create a new narrative text. In the pre test, the students were given 50 minutes to write their narrative text. The students were not allowed to look up the book or any kinds of source to write narrative text See Appendix 10. However, the students were allowed to ask to the teacher or look up the dictionaries to find