THE USE OF SERIAL PICTURES TO TEACH ENGLISH WRITING OF RECOUNT TEXT TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS (A Case Study of SMPN 8 Mojokerto) Repository - UNAIR REPOSITORY

  (A Case Study of SMPN 8 Mojokerto)

  A THESIS By: RANTIKA RISKA DEFIANTI St. N: 121112136 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY SURABAYA 2016

  (A Case Study of SMPN 8 Mojokerto) A THESIS

  Submitted as partial fulfillment of requirements for the Sarjana degree of English Department Faculty Humanities

  Airlangga University Surabaya

  By: RANTIKA RISKA DEFIANTI St. N: 121112136 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY SURABAYA 2016

  Dedicated to My Beloved Mom, Dad, Santika Maya Kustanti And Septika Risda Arfianti

  You are the most precious part in my life

  ACKNOWLEDGMENT

  Alhamdulillahirobbil’alamin, all praises are merely to the Almighty Allah SWT for the gracious mercy and tremendous blessing that enables me to accomplish this thesis. I thank my lord, Allah SWT for giving me strength, protection and guide me to find a way when I am confused and feeling down in writing my thesis. Peace and salutation always be given to Prophet Muhammad SAW who has been brought ‘light’ for his adherent.

  I would like to give my deepest gratitude for Mr. Jurianto, M.Ed as my thesis advisor, who has guided and encouraged me to finish this thesis. Thank you for your valuable suggestion and guidance to lead me finish this thesis. No worthy award that I can give, but hope God rewards the best for him. I will never forget his patience, his sincerity, and his time in guiding me. Also, it is my gratitude for all lectures of English Department for giving me much new wide knowledge, from them I can learn anything that I cannot imagine before and open my eyes broader to make out the meaning of the world well.

  Furthermore, I would like to say thank you to Drs. Mochammad Thoha, MM, the headmaster of SMPN 8 Mojokerto, who has given me permission to do the research, to the 67 students of the second year of SMPN 8 Mojokerto for their good cooperation, and to Tanti Herawati S.Pd, the English teacher in SMPN 8 Mojokerto for her assistance during the research.

  The greatest honor and appreciation would be finally dedicated to my beloved parents who always supporting me, praying of me, and giving me bunch of love in every whiff of breath. Because of your loves, cares, motivation, and willingness to wait for my graduation and timeless prayers during days and nights, I can live as today and I can be stronger every time because you are the only reason why I should be stronger. My sincere thanks and love are also dedicated to my beloved sisters, Santika Maya Kustanti and Septika Risda Arfianti who divert me when I am feeling down in writing my thesis and feeling sad in my life. I also express my sincere thanks to my brother, David Saputra., thank you for your kindness and my sincere thanks to my loving person, Gilang Andika who always accompanies me in three years and help me to accomplish this thesis.

  Thank you for my companion, Septiani Remilda, Alfath Fahma Zustiana, Sari Fitriani, Ni Putu Putri Yasih, and Sulvianti Tania, thank you for being my best friend and coloring my four years with happiness, although we have sad time, but it will be a happy time if you are be in my side. For Aimatus saif, thank you for your Canon and your support.

  Last but not least, thank you to all the names I have mentioned above, thank you for all your support, for inspiring me to always keep on struggling to accomplish my dream to do the best. I do hope this thesis can be useful for others.

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  Surabaya, 23 December 2015 The Writer,

  Rantika Riska Defianti

  THE ONE REAL OBJECT OF EDUCATION IS TO HAVE A MAN IN THE CONDITION OF CONTINUALLY ASKING QUESTIONS (Mandell Creighton)

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INSIDE COVER PAGE ............................................................................... i

  INSIDE TITLE PAGE .................................................................................. ii DECLARATION PAGE ............................................................................... iii DEDICATION PAGE ................................................................................... iv THESIS ADVISORS’ APPROAVAL PAGE ............................................... v

  THESIS EXAMINERS’ APPROVAL PAGE ............................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENT ................................................................................ vii EPIGRAH ...................................................................................................... ix TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................. x LIST OF FIGURE .......................................................................................... xii

  LIST OF TABLE ............................................................................................ xiii LIST OF APPENDICES ............................................................................... xiv ABSTRACT ................................................................................................... xv

  CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 1

  1.1 Background of the Study .......................................................................... 1

  1.2 Statement of the Problem .......................................................................... 6

  1.3 Objective of the Study .............................................................................. 7

  1.4 Significant of the Study ............................................................................ 7

  1.5 Definition of Key Terms ........................................................................... 8

  CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................ 9

  2.1 Teaching and Learning Writing ................................................................ 9

  2.2 The Roles of Pictures in Writing .............................................................. 14

  2.3 Recount Text ............................................................................................. 16

  2.4 Assessing Writing ..................................................................................... 18

  2.5 Related Study ............................................................................................ 20

  CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE STUDY ................................................. 23

  3.1 Research Approach .................................................................................. 23

  3.2 Research Variable .................................................................................... 24

  3.3 Population and Sample ............................................................................ 25

  3.4 Technique of Data Collection .................................................................. 26

  3.5 Technique of Data Analysis .................................................................... 29

  CHAPTER IV DISCUSSION ....................................................................... 31

  4.1 Data Presentation ..................................................................................... 31

  4.2 Data Analysis .......................................................................................... 43

  4.3 Interpretation ........................................................................................... 47

  CHAPTER V CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 51

  5.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................... 53

  5.2 Suggestion ................................................................................................ 54 REFERENCES .............................................................................................. 56 APPENDICES ............................................................................................... 59

  LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 2.1.1 Martin’s Models of Genre …………………………………… 12Figure 2.3.1 The Generic Structure of Recount Text ……………………… 17Figure 2.4.1 Jacobs’ et al Analytic Scoring Profile ………………………... 18Figure 3.1.1 Design Sample of Experimental and Control Group ………… 24

  LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.4.1 Time of Data Collection ………………………………………. 27Table 4.1.1 Score of Pre-Test and Post-Test of the Experimental Group …. 32Table 4.1.2 Score of Pre-Test and Post-Test of the Control Group ………. 36Table 4.1.3 Score increase in each aspect .................................................... 40Table 4.1.4 Number of increasing or decreasing of students’ writing ......... 42Table 4.2.1 Sig. (2-tailed) value of the experimental group ......................... 44Table 4.2.2 Sig. (2-tailed) value of the Control group .................................. 45Table 4.2.3 Independent Test of the Experimental and the Control Group .. 46 Appendix 1 Data Screening of The Experimental and The Control Group Appendix 2 T-test in The Experimental and The Control Group Appendix 3 Wilcoxon Test in the Experimental Group and the Control Group Appendix 4 Serial Pictures 1 Appendix 5 Serial Pictures 2 Appendix 6 Serial Pictures 3 Appendix 7 Serial Pictures 4 Appendix 8 Letter of Permission of Airlangga University Appendix 9 Letter of Permission of SMPN 8 Mojokerto

  Rantika Riska Defianti. 2015. The Use of Serial Pictures to Teach English Writing of Recount Text to the Eight Grade Students (A Case Study of SMPN 8 Mojokerto). Submitted as partial fulfillment of requirements for the sarjana

  degree of English Department Faculty Humanities Airlangga University.

  Abstract

  This study was conducted to examine the use of serial pictures in writing recount text whether pictures can improve students’ writing or cannot. 67 students of SMPN 8 Mojokerto, consisting of 41 girls and 26 boys were chosen as the participants. The participants were divided into two groups which were the experimental group and the control group. Pre-test and post-tests were conducted to monitor the students’ writing. Using Jacobs’ et al composition profile, the writing was scored analytically. The data then were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 to calculate the data whether there is means difference between the experimental group and the control group after the treatments were given. From the statistical test, the significance value or p-value was lower than α value which was 0.05, means that null hypothesis (H ) was rejected while alternative hypothesis (H

  1 ) was accepted. In other word, the use of serial pictures could help

  the students to obtain better achievement in writing. However, the use of pictures could give motivation for students to develop and elaborate the ideas. Therefore, it can be concluded that series of pictures could improve the students’ writing of recount text.

  Keywords: Recount Text, Serial Pictures, Writing.