USING PHOTOGRAPHS AS MEDIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS OF CLASS X IIS2 OF SMA N1 SEYEGAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

Abstract

This classroom action research is conducted to improve students’ writing skills of Class X IIS2 of SMA N1 Seyegan through photograph. This research was action research that was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle consisted of three meetings and  the second cycle consisted of two meetings. The subjects of the research were 30 students of Class X IIS2 of SMA N1 Seyegan. This research used qualitative data and was supported by quantitative data. The researcher conducted observation and interview to collect the qualitative data. The colected data were in the form of field notes, interview transcripts, and photographs. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were collected from pretest, post test 1 and post test2. As the result, it can be concluded that using photograph as media can improve students’ writing skills. The improvement consisted of some aspects. They were text organization, development of the idea, grammar, punctuation and style. The text organization was improved from mean 13,5 in the pretest to 16,3 in the post test 1 and 18 in the post test 2. The development of the idea was improved from mean 13,3 in the pretest to 15,8 in the post test 1 and 17,4 in the post test 2. The grammar aspect was improved from mean 12,7 to 15,3 in the post test 1 and 16 in the post test 2. The punctuation aspect was improved from mean 13,3 in the pretest to 15,1 in the post test 1 and 16 in the post test 2. The style aspect was improved from mean 13,5 to 15 in the post test 1 and 16 in the post test 2. The overall improvement was showed by T-test with the number of Sig. (2-tailed) of paired 1 (pretest – post test 1), paired 2 (pretest – post test 2) and paired 3 (post test 1 – post test 2) was 0,000- smaller than 0,05, that could be concluded that using photograph as media could improve students writing skills significantly.