THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING REALIA TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SMK SARASWATI SALATIGA IN TWELFTH GRADE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 20142015) A GRADUATING PAPER Submitted to the Board Examiners as a par

  

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING REALIA TO IMPROVE

THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

(AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SMK SARASWATI SALATIGA IN

TWELFTH GRADE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2014/2015)

  

A GRADUATING PAPER

Submitted to the Board Examiners as a partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan Islam (S.Pd.I)

English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty

  

State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga

By :

  

IKHSAN SUSILO

11310044

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

  MOTTO

Astaghfirullah (For the Past)

Alhamdulillah (For the Present)

  

In „Sha‟Allah (For the future)

“There is Nothing Impossible”.

  

Barangsiapa Ingin Mutiara Harus Berani Terjun di Lautan yang Dalam.

  

(Ir.Soekarno)

Bermimpilah Setinggi Langit Jika Engkau Jatuh, Engkau akan Jatuh di

Antara Bintang- Bintang.

  

(Ir.Soekarno)

  

DEDICATION

  I dedicate this graduating paper to: 1.

  My God, Allah SWT who always gives me everything.

  2. My beloved parents, my mother (Mak Jum) and father (Pak Gun). You are my every thing.

  3. My beloved grandmothers, Mbah Suratmi and Mbah Salimah who always gives me guidance of life.

  4. My aunt (Mbak Kus), thanks a lot for the financial support for my college.

  5. My family who always gives me support every time.

  6. My friends all members of TBI 2010, especially for my closest friends Aris, Echan, Arashi, Rizky, Yuni, Nisa, Umai, Ismi, Sri and Iput. Good Luck for you all guys.

  7. All of my beloved people who cannot be mentioned one by one.

  

ABSTRACT

Susilo, Ikhsan. 2014. The Effectiveness of Using Realia Media to Improve the Students‟

  Ability in Writing Descriptive Text (An Experimental Study of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in Twelfth Grade in the Academic Year of 2014/2015). A Graduating Paper.Educational Faculty.English Department.State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN). Consultant: Dr. H. Sa‟adi, M.Ag

  Key words: Realia, descriptive text, students‟ ability in writing

  This study deals with the effectiveness of using realia to improve the students‟ ability in writing descriptive text by the twelfth grade students of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in the academic year 2014/2015. The objective of the study was to find out the differences of effectiveness of the students writing skill whose are taught and not taught by realia media. The method of this research was experimental study and applied random sampling technique, with the total number of the sample was 73 students. The data of this study was taken from using pre-test and post-test by score of wrote descriptive text by using realia media. The research data were analyzed by using T-test. The formula used to find out the difference between pre-test and post-test. Based on the statistical analysis, it could be seen from the result of mean score of Post-test of XII MMB (control class) is 61.39 higher than pre-test 60 ,and the result of mean score of pos-test XII MMA (experimental class) is 67.88 higher than pre-test 59.57. If t- table is equal or greater than t-test calculation, so the null hypothesis (H ) is rejected. It means, there is significance difference mean on pre-test and post-test. This indicated that “Realia Media” can improve the students of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in writing descriptive text.

  

TABLE OF CONTENT

  TITLE PAGE .......................................................................................................... i DECLARATION ................................................................................................... ii ATTENTIVE COUNSELOR NOTES. ................................................................. iii STATEMENT OF CERTIFICATION .................................................................. iv MOTTO .................................................................................................................. v DEDICATION ...................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENT ......................................................................................vii ABSTRACT ...........................................................................................................viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................ix

  CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. The Background of the Research…………………………….. 1 B. Problem Statements……………………………………………4 C. The Objective of the Study…………………………………….4

  G.

  Research Methodology 1.

  Research Approach………………………………………..8 2. Research Method……………………………………….....8 3. Research Design…………………………………………..9 4. Population of Sample…………………………………….10 5. Technique of Sampling…………………………………...11 6. Method of Data Collection……………………………….11 7. Data Analysis……………………………………………..13 H. Paper Outlines………………...................................................16

  CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK A. WRITING…………………….……………………………. .17 1. Definition of Writing…………………………………….17 2. Writing Strategies ……………………………………….18 3. Notion of Good Writing ………………………...………20 4. Teaching Writing………………………………………...21 5. Writing Skill……………………………………………..22 B. Realia Media………..………………………………………..24 1. Definition of Realia……………………………………...24 2. The Type of Realia………………………………………26

  C.

  Descriptive Text …………………………………………….28 1.

  Definition of Descriptive Text…..………………………28 2. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text…...…………….. 28 3. Language Features of Descriptive Text…..……………. 28

  CHAPTER III RESEARCH REPORT AND DATA PRESENTATION A. Research Setting………………………................................. 30 1. General Description of SMK Saraswati Salatiga..............30 2. Vision and Mission……………………………………...32 3. Time Setting…………………………………………….33 4. The Teachers of SMK Saraswati Salatiga………………34 5. The Students of SMK Saraswati Salatiga………………34 6. The Subjects of Study…………………………………..34 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION A. Data Analysis………………………………………………39 B. Arithmetical Calculation…………………………………...41 1. Mean…………………………………………………...46 2. Deviation Standard…………………………………….47

  B.

  Suggestion ............................................................................ 55 BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDICES

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study English is spoken by people from all over the world. Everybody

  knows about English even though they cannot speak or write this language well. There are four skills of English that should be mastered students such as speaking, listening, reading and writing. Writing is productive skill in English because students must be through a process that is full with theoretical rules about grammar.

  Learning is acquiring facts, skills, and methods that can be retained and used as necessary. (Trianto, 2009: 15-21). Learning about language is not only speaking, but also reading something by written text. It means that learning language is also learning about writing. Not only speaking, but learning English without mastering writing skill is nothing. Today in the education system in Indonesia students will pass the national examination of English subject by multiple choice testing. English in national examination is tested by reading and listening. In daily class meeting surely those students also get writing exercise to make sentences in various kinds of tenses. And maybe in mastering grammar too, it must be developed to give students ability

  Most of high schools have similar problem about the students‟ ability in writing. They are poor in vocabulary mastery to write text maybe short article in English. Many causes why this problem is always happen in a lot of school, the first factor is that teachers always give lecturing and theoretical lesson, just one way communication from teacher to students and it makes a passive condition. The second factor is that teachers always give materials from text book and make a reading tendency. Talking about writing is talking about creativity and art to produce the ideas into written form. The students can use vocabulary from any sources. (Ministry of National Education, 2003: 53) as quoted by (Rahmawati, 2014: 16).

  To solve this problem there are many ways to improve the students‟ writing skill. The writer has several ways to improve the students writing skills for example teacher ask students to write sentence in various kinds of tenses, make simple paragraph telling about things, their own story etc.

  According Brown (2001: 335-336) there are 10 processes approach to writing instructions. Writing is writing, so it needs a long process through step by step exercise to be master.

  Based the phenomena above, the writer tries to find the effective method to improve the students‟ ability in writing. SMK Saraswati Salatiga is Realia enhance meaning and make vocabulary more concrete and, therefore, more comprehensible. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: vi) Using realia students can look the example and create their own ideas, write sentence by sentence into paragraph, paragraph by paragraph to make an interesting text. Using realia to preview or to review a l esson‟s vocabulary puts everyone on an equal footing and prepares all children for success. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: vii). For a long time when students‟ mastery in writing is good it can be a productive skill to produce any text that is has benefits for self and others.

  By doing research first, the writer will find the result of pre test as an example of the problem. Since the writer will be working with the children in small groups, the writer will have a good understanding of their individual progress. Make sure that every student participates. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: ix).

  The result will be analyzed and after that the second step is choosing the appropriate method to apply Realia Media in the class in the post test. The different result from pre test and post test will give the description how the Realia Media improve the students‟ skill in writing effectively.

  The writer has experienced during PPL teaching English at SMK Saraswati Salatiga for 1.5 months. The writer thinks that the students are in

  STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT”. (An

  Experimental Study in the Twelfth grade of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in the Academic Year 2014/2015).

  B. Problem Statements

  Based on the explanation above, the problem statements consist of: 1. How is the profile of students‟ writing ability who are taught using realia media?

  2. How is the profile of students‟ writing ability who are not taught using realia media?

  3. Is there any significant different effectiveness of students writing skill who are taught by Realia Media and not taught by Realia Media?

  C. The Objective of the Study 1.

  To find out the students‟ writing ability who are taught using realia media.

  2. To find out the students‟ writing ability who are not taught using realia media.

  3. To find out the differences of effectiveness of the students writing skill who are taught and not taught by Realia Media.

D. The Benefit of Study

  There are some benefits of the research some of them as follow: 1.

  Theoretically The English language teaching methods especially Realia Media will inspire other researchers to conduct further researches.

2. Practically a.

  For the writer The research finding will improve teaching ability in teaching English using Realia Media method and develop this.

  b.

  For the students The research finding will improve students‟ ability in writing descriptive text.

  c.

  For the English teacher Give the real description to use Realia Media to improve the students‟ skill in writing descriptive text.

E. Definition of Key Terms

  There are some key terms of this study as follows: 1.

  Effectiveness b.

  Jaap Schorens (1992: 11) says effectiveness is to degree to which educational means processes result in the attainment of educational goals.

  2. Realia Media Realia miniature objects that resemble their real-world counterparts provide an excellent tool to help these children develop essential English vocabulary. Realia enhance meaning and make vocabulary more concrete and, therefore, more comprehensible. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: vi)

  3. Improve Develop or increase in mental capacity by education or experience.

  Improve is to become or make something or somebody better. (Hornby, 2004: 216) 4. Descriptive Text

  Descriptive Text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information. The context of this kind of text is the description of particular thing, animal, person, or others, for instance: our pets or a person we know well. It differs from Report which describes things, animals, persons, or others in general. The Social Function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place, or thing. (Depdiknas, 2004: 4)

F. Review of Previous Researches

  There was a previous research from Nur Hidayah with title The Use of

  

Realia to Improve Vocabulary Mastery (A Classroom Action Research in the

  third Year Students of MI Nurul Azhar Terban Pabelan in the Academic Year 2010/2011). The research from Nur

  Hidayah focused on the students‟ ability in vocabulary mastery especially in speaking.

  The second review from Erny Rokhmawati with title The Use of

  Realia to Improve Students‟ Speaking Ability in Procedure Text(A Classroom

  Action Research with the Ninth Grade Students of MTs.Mathalibul Huda Mlonggo Jepara in the Academic Year of 2010/2011). The research focused on speaking and Realia Media has role as a tools or visual aid when the students step by step explained to made something orally.

  The both of researches above inspired the writer to conduct an experimental research with title The Effectiveness of Using Realia Media to

  

Improve the Students‟ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text. (An Experimental

  Study in the twelfth Grade of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in the Academic Year 2014/2015). The focus of this research is writing. Different with both of researches above about speaking, in this research the writer has purpose to improve the students‟ ability in writing to make descriptive text after applying

G. Research Methodology 1. Research Approach

  The writer used quantitative approach as the primary approach in this research. The quantitative research isolates and defines variables and variable categories. These variables are linked together to frame hypothesis, often, before, the data are tested upon. The secondary approach is descriptive. Descriptive is describing how a technique of learning is applied and how the result wanted can be research. (Muklis, 2000:57) 2.

   Research Method

  In this research, the writer focused on improving students‟ writing ability in descriptive text. Research can be defined as the process of problem solving. To solve the problem, the researcher needs a method. The method of research that used in this study is experimental research, according to Arikunto (1990:272), “Experiment research is a research method used for finding the effects of treatment towards another in a controlled condition”.

  The writer used comparative experimental research. Research methodology plays an important role in the research. The writer used an find some problems in the teaching learning process. The experimental class is the students that are taught by using realia and control class is students that are taught by non-realia method. And the result of pre-test and post- test will be measured. The score shows students‟ writing ability in descriptive text. All of which makes this research quantitative in nature.

  The writer used an experimental research as an attempt to improve writing teaching learning process and to solve the problems that students have related to writing ability.

3. Research Design

  To make the data in this research complete and clear the writer described the experimental group and control group as follow: No Experiment Group Control Group

  1 Teacher gave students pre- Teacher gave students pre-test test

  2 Calculating: Calculating: a.

  a. Mean Mean b.

  b. T-test T-test

  3 Comparing the both group Comparing the both group score test whether increase or score test whether increase or

  (experiment group) 2). Pre test (control group) b.

  T-test 1). Post test (experiment group) 2).Post test (control group) group) 2). Pre test (control group) b.

  T-test 1). Post test (experiment group) 2). Post test (control group)

  4 Teacher gave the students treatment ( Realia Media) Teacher gave the students treatment (explanation orally without Realia Media)

  5 Teacher give post test to evaluation Teacher gave post test to evaluation

4. Population of sample

  Suharsini Arikunto says “population is all respondents of the research subject. (Arikunto, 2010: 173). The population of this research was the twelfth years students of SMK Saraswati Salatiga the academic year 2014- 2015 consist of 73 students consist of 35 students from XII MMA class writer divided into 2 groups, XII MMA class as an experiment class and XII MMB as control class.

  5. Technique of sampling

  The writer uses random sampling as a technique to take sample in this research. According to Sutrisno (1991: 222) “A technique used to take sample is called sampling”. The writer takes two classes of students as a sample. The teacher suggested the writer to conduct the research in XII MMA and XII MMB class because both of class has different characteristic in learning English. The MMA class is crowded class but the students are smart enough, and the MMB class is full with quiet people but they are lower than class MMA but the difference of two classes is not significant remember that just take one class and divide class into 2 groups is more complicated, a half of class as experiment group, and half of other as a control group.

  6. Method of data collection

  The researcher as a teacher prepared media and materials, explained materials and leaded the class condition to make a discussion. There was a question-answer activity about lesson material and teacher control discussion result, what paragraph that students wrote, what tense that students used to write paragraph, were the content relate with the topic (Realia Media) given or not. From this data collection the researcher would know the progress and how Realia Media improve the students‟ skill effectively. The researcher had several techniques of collecting data, then the technique of collecting data was called instrument. The instrument for collecting data could be questionnaire, observation, interview, documentation, test, etc. In this research the writer used test as the main method.

  In experimental research, the writer used two kinds of instruments in collect data. Those are test and documentation.

  a.

  Test 1)

  Pre Test The test can be called at the pre-test before the treatment of this research. The pre-test is aimed is to know the students mastery in writing materials before the treatments carried out. The function of pre-test is to know how far the students‟ ability in writing before Realia Media applied. By pre-test the differences between before and

  XII MMB is taught without realia media). From the score of this test, the researcher is intended to find out the effectiveness of using realia to increase students writing skill. The result of the scoring then is compared with pre- test. The function of post test is to measuring the students improve in writing descriptive text after treatment by Realia Media.

  b.

  Documentation Documentation is a number of data that present the verbal data such as correspondence, journal, memory report, and other which can be mutually responsible. (Sutrisno Hadi, 1991: 236). In this research the documentation can be text that written by students.

7. Data Analysis

  Data analysis for this research is descriptive quantitative. The purpose of data analysis is to know the use of realia to improve students writing skill at the twelfth grade students of SMK Saraswati Salatiga in the academic year of 2014/2015.

  a.

  Statistical Analysis After collecting the data the next step of study was score found the writer conclude the score which improve from pre-test to post test.

  b.

  Statistical Hypothesis The score taken by pre-test and post test was collected and it is become the result of research. The writer analyzes the data statistic and looking for the data increase, it means that when the score of test increase the Realia Media effectively improve the students‟ ability in writing. To analyze the data from the test, researcher conducts some steps:

  1) To find out the rate of average of pre-test (x) and the rate of post-test (y) the researcher use formula:

  MX= ∑

  N MX=

  ∑ N

  Explanation: M

  =Mean of the student‟s score x = total score of pre-test

  2) To find out the deviation standard the researcher uses a formula: _{2 2}

   

  D  D 

    SD = 

   

  N N

    Explanation: SD = Standard deviation D = difference between pretest and post test N = the number of observation

  3) To find out the significance between x and y by calculate t-test, the researcher uses this formula, in order to analyze the use of medium used in the learning process, the process formula is :

   D  

   

  :

  t   N

   

  SD

  N 

1 Explanation:

  D : Difference between pretest and post-test N : the number of observation H.

   Paper Outlines

  In this section the writer will discuss some part of graduating paper‟s organization. In order to discuss such as chapter I, chapter II, chapter III, chapter IV, and chapter V. Chapter I present background of study, problem statements, the objective of the study, benefit of study, definition of key terms, review of previous researches, and paper outlines. Chapter II describes about literature framework which discuss definition of writing, the definition and some theories of Realia Media, and descriptive text. Chapter III is research methodology. It consist of research setting, research approach, research method, population and sample, sample technique, method of data collection, data analysis and statistical hypothesis. Chapter IV discusses about data analysis. It consists of data description and result of the research. Chapter V consists of conclusions and suggestions. The last part is bibliography and appendix.

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK A. Writing 1. Definition of writing According to Jack C. Richard (1997:100), writing is used either as

  evidence of successful learning or as a means of learning. Writing is process of thinking; it means that writing is an activity to express ideas, issues, events, feeling or thinking to the others through written form. Yet good writing skills are essential to academic success and a requirement for many occupation and profession (Richard, 1997:100). By writing we can tell about people, remember the facts and ideas.

  Harmer (2007:13) mentions that writing involved planning what we are going to write. First, draft it. Then reviewing and editing what we have written and producing a final version. Many people have thought that this is linear process but a closer examination of how writers of all different kinds are involve in writing process. Suggest that we do all these things again and again. Thus, we may plan, re-plan, draft, edit, re-edit, re-plan, etc before we produce our version. Writing is process of creating written text that obtains ideas, feelings, thoughts, and desires to other person.

2. Writing Strategies

  According Harmer (2004:4-5) there are 4 steps about writing process as follow: a.

  Planning Experienced writers plan what they are going to write. Before starting to write or type, they try and decide what is they are going to say. For some writers this may involve making detailed notes. When planning, the writers have to think about three main issues. In the first place they have to consider the purpose of their writing since this will influence (amongst other things) not only the type of text they wish to produce, but also the language they use, and the information they choose to include. Secondly, experienced writers think of the audience they are writing for, since this will influence not only the shape of the writing (how it is laid out, how the paragraphs are structured etc) but also the choice of language- whether, for example, it is formal or informal tone. Thirdly, writers have to consider the content structure of the piece- that is, how best to sequence the facts, ideas, or arguments which they have decided to include. (Harmer, 2004:4-5).

  b.

  Drafting of drafts maybe produced on the way to final version. (Harmer, 2004:5).

  c.

  Editing (reflecting and revising) Once writers have produced a draft they then, usually, read through what they have written to see where it works and where it doesn‟t. Perhaps the order of the information is not clear. Perhaps the way something is written is ambiguous or confusing. They may then move paragraphs around or write a new introduction. They may use a different form of words for a particular sentence. More skilled writers tend to look at issues of general meaning and overall structure before concentrating on detailed features such as individual words and grammatical accuracy. The latter two are, of course, important and are often dealt with later in the process.

  Reflecting and revising are often helped by other readers (or edi tors) who comment and make suggestions. Another reader‟s reaction to a piece of writing will help the author to make appropriate revisions. (Harmer, 2004:5).

  d.

  Final version Once writers have edited their draft, making the changes they

  We might decide to represent these stages in the following way: “planning – drafting – editing – final draft”(Harmer, 2004:5).

3. Notion of good writing

  Some elements in good writing are content, form, grammar, style and mechanic (Haris, 2001:306). A good writing must express good characteristics as follow: a.

  Content: writing must convey the main idea or an attentive reader should be able to grasp the writer purpose. The substances of the writing; the idea expressed (Haris, 1969:68).

  b.

  Form: writing should contain logical or associative connection and transition which clearly express the relationship of the idea described.

  The organization of the content (Haris, 1969:38).

  c.

  Grammar: writing should adhere to the rules of grammar related to the tenses with the sequence of time, the employment of grammatical forms and syntactic pattern (Haris, 1969:69).

  d.

  Style: writing should engage its reader through original insight and precise. Haris (1969:69) say that style: the choice of structures and lexical items to give a particular tone or flavor to the writing.

4. Teaching Writing

  Writing (as one of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing) has always formed part of the syllabus in the teaching of English.

  However, it can be used for a variety purposes, ranging from being merely a “backup” for grammar teaching to a major syllabus strand in its own right, where mastering the ability to write effectively is seen as a key objective for learners.

  The importance given to writing differs from teaching situation to teaching situation. In some cases it shares equal billing with the other skills; in other curricula it is only used, if at all, in its “writing-for- learning” role where the students write predominately to argument their learning of the grammar and vocabulary of the language.

  Partly, because the nature of the writing process and also because of the need for accuracy in writing, the mental processes that a student goes through when writing differ significantly from the way they approach discussion or other kinds of spoken communication. This is just as true for single sentence writing as it is with single paragraphs or extended texts. When writing, students frequently have more time to think than they do in oral activities. They can go through what they know in their minds, and development as they resolve problems with the writing puts into their minds. (Harmer, 2004:31).

5. Writing Skill

  English is spoken by people from all over the world. Everybody knows about English even though they cannot speak or write this language well. There are four skills of English that should be mastered students such as speaking, listening, reading and writing. Writing is productive skill in English because students must be through a process that is full with theoretical rules about grammar.

  Learning is acquiring facts, skills, and methods that can be retained and used as necessary (Trianto, 2009: 15-21). Learning about language is not only speaking, but also reading something by written text. It means that learning language is also learning about writing. Not only speaking, but learning English without mastering writing skill is nothing. According to (Ministry of National Education, 2003:44) as quoted by (Rahmawati, 2014:16), it is mentioned that standard of competence for writing skill is expressing the meaning by developing the right rhetorical in writing text as narration, explanation, discussion, commentary, and review with variation structures of modification. In writing a readable and logical text, d.

  Viewing the ideas in writing from any directions.

  e.

  Making the lists.

  f.

  Correcting the result.

  g.

  Using vocabulary which found from any sources. (Ministry of National Education, 2003:53).

  Brown (2001: 335-336) states the process of approach to writing instructions. The instructions are mentioned below: a.

  Focus on the process of writing that leads to the final written product.

  b.

  Help students write to understand their own composing process.

  c.

  Help them to build repertories of strategies for prewriting, drafting and rewriting.

  d.

  Give students time to write and rewrite.

  e.

  Place central importance on the process of revision.

  f.

  Let students discover what they want to say as they write.

  g.

  Give the students feedback through the composing process (not just on the product) as they attempt to bring their expression closer and closer to intention.

  h.

  Encourage feedback from both instructor and peers. j.

  In short, writing competences is the target of learning process of writing in making effective written text. The competences include the ability to make grammatically and rhetorically structured text the appropriate communicative context.

B. Realia Media 1. Definition of Realia

  Many children in today‟s classrooms struggle with the English language. Some come from homes where a foreign language is spoken; others simply have not developed a large enough academic vocabulary to thrive in the classroom. In either case, many children are at risk because of their limited English vocabularies. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: vi).

  Realia miniature objects that resemble their real-world counterparts provide an excellent tool to help these children develop essential English vocabulary. Realia enhance meaning and make vocabulary more concrete and, therefore, more comprehensible. (Berkeley, CA, 2010: vi).

  Realia or real items are useful for teaching and learning in the classroom. Objects that are intrinsically interesting can provide a good starting point for a variety of language work and communication activities. Realia also make learning process more enjoyable. (Harmer, EFL classroom, the word realia means using real items found in everyday life as an aid to teaching English. (Nugroho, 2010: 17) In education, Realia are objects from real life used in classroom instructions by educators to improve st udents‟ understanding of other cultures and real life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students‟ associations between words everyday objects and the objects themselves. In many cases, these objects are part of an instructional kit which includes a manual and is thus considered as being part of a documentary whole by librarians.

  Realia is real things represent the actual conditions with which the learner will live. As such, realia should be used whenever possible. Real things are available. The task is to locate them and put them to use in helping students learn. Examples of realia are: insects; coins; rocks; plants; pets; and stamp.

  The beginners, particularly children, „real‟ or lifelike items are useful for teaching the meanings of words, teachers sometimes appear in the classroom with plastic fruit, cardboard, clock faces, or two telephones to help stimulate phone conversations. Object that is intrinsically interesting can provide good starting point for variety of language work and

2. The Type of Realia

  Realia can be divided into several types, they are: a. Man made, such as: artifacts, tools, utensils, etc.

  b.

  Naturally occurring like: specimens, samples, etc. it is usually borrowed, purchased, or received as donation by a teacher, library, or museum for use in classroom instruction or in exhibit. (Hidayah, 2011: 8) 3.

   The Function of Realia Media

  The use of realia in the English teaching learning process used to help the teacher: a.

  To give variations method in teaching learning process.

  b.

  To give stimulate of imagination and creativity the students.

  c.

  To make students interest and look forward to learning.

  d.

  To make English lesson memorable by creating a link between the objects and the word or phrase the present.

  e.

  To save time, as recognition of an object is immediate. (Hidayah, 2011: 9) 4.

   The Use of Realia

  As English teachers, the use of realia is only limited by your experiencing the taste, touch and sm ell of the object. Realia doesn‟t have to be limited to food or drink. Timetables, tickets, newspapers, clothes,etc.

  In fact any object you can think of can be used as a teaching aid. (Nugroho, 2010:20)

  Some advantages of using realia are (Nugroho, 2010:20): a.

  Lesson which is presented to be meaningful a clear for the students.

  b.

  Teaching and learning method are various.

  c.

  The students become more creative to do various activities.

  d.

  To create an interesting atmosphere.

  Advantages or Special Purposes based on excerpts from The Expert Educator (Jones, 1994): a.

  Experience with real things with which one will interact in life is the best learning situation possible.

  b.

  Real objects are plentiful and available everywhere.

  c.

  Real items can be observed and handled, providing concrete learning experiences for the student.

  d.

  Dealing with realia motivates the learners.

C. Descriptive Text 1. Definition of Descriptive Text Descriptive Text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information.

  The context of this kind of text is the description of particular thing, animal, person, or others, for instance: our pets or a person we know well.

  It differs from Report which describes things, animals, persons, or others in general. The Social Function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place, or thing. (Depdiknas, 2004: 4). Descriptive paragraph is a set of s sentences related to each other in which the writers draw their ideas and thoughts clearly based on their senses on the object they see (Purnomo, 2014: 13).

2. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

  The generic structure of descriptive text consists of: a.

  Identification: is the part of paragraph that introduces the character.

  b.

  Description: is the part of paragraph that describes the character.

  (Purnomo, 2014: 13) 3.

   Language Features a.

  Using adjectives and compound adjectives.

  Examples: b.

  Using Linking Verb/Relating Verb Examples: 1.

  The temple is so magnificent.

  2. The temple consists of five terraces.

  c.

  Using Simple Present Tense Examples: 1.

  The museum houses hundreds of Greek statues.

  2. The hotel provides 450 rooms and a large swimming pool.

  d.

  Using degree of comparison Examples: 1.

  The weather in Jakarta is hotter than Bandung.

  2. Bogor has the same weather as Ungaran. (Purnomo, 2014: 13- 14).

CHAPTER III RESEARCH PRESENTATION AND DATA REPORT A. Research Setting 1. General Description of SMK Saraswati Salatiga SMK Saraswati Salatiga is vocational high school under Yayasan Pembina Rehabilisasi dan Pembangunan Masyarakat which was located on Jalan Hasanudin No 738 Salatiga, Sidomukti, Salatiga. These sections try to describe about the situation of this school.SMK Saraswati has duration of study 3 years and consists of 4 skills

  program such as:

  Skills program Skill competency

  Automotive Engineering Lightweight Vehicle Engineering

  Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Maintenance Engineering Industry

  Electrical Engineering Engineering Power Installation Industrial Automation

  Computer Engineering and Multi Media Informatics

  The profile of SMK Saraswati : a.

  Identity Mail address : SMK SARASWATI SALATIGA No. 738 Hasanuddin Street. Sidomukti Salatiga Phone : (0298) 326516 Fax : (0298) 312224 Website : Email : Headmaster : Drs. Daryanto b.

  Institutions Name : SMK Saraswati Salatiga School status : Private Type of school : Vocational Accreditation : B School number : 2038462 School statistics number : 322 036 203 002 Year established : September, 23 1971 TIN : 01.446.218.8.505.000

2. Vision and Mission a. Vision

  SMK Saraswati has objectives as follows: 1) Improving the quality of graduates. 2) Improving labor market services. 3)

  Develop a servant to the community, by channeling graduate or equivalent vocational labor market through vocational.

  b.

  Mission SMK Saraswati Salatiga has vision and missions as follows: 1)

  Vision Be a Leader of Vocational Institutions.

  2) Mission

  (a) Organizing for education and professional training, to produce quality graduates who are intelligent, skilled and competitively.

  (b) Improve service to graduate, to be distributed to industry / world of work through a special job fair.