THE EFFECT OF WORDLESS PICTURES BOOK ON STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT.

THE EFFECT OF WORDLESS PICTURE BOOK MEDIA ON

STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING

NARRATIVE TEXT

A Thesis

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

PUTRI PERMATASARI SAMOSIR

Registration Number 2113321041

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTEMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

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ABSTRACT

Samosir, Putri Permatasari.2113321041. The Effect of Wordless Pictures Book on Student’s Achievement in Writing Narrative Text. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan. 2016.

This study was conducted as an attempt to discover the effect of using Wordless

Picture Book on student’s achievement in writing narrative text. It was an

experimental research. The subject was student of Grade X, Sinar Husni Senior High School (Sekolah Menengah Atas: SMA) Sinar Husni. Two classes from five parallel classes were taken by cluster random sampling which divided into two groups, 30 students as control group and 30 students as experimental group. The analysis in were showed that the the scores of the students in the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the students in the control group at the level of significant µ = 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58, t-observed value 3.004 > t-table value > 2.000. The findings indicate that using Wordless Picture Book significantly affected the student’s writing achievement. So, English teachers are suggested to use Wordless Picture Book in order to improve

student’s achievement in writing narrative text.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and the foremost, the writer would like to express her deepest

gratitude to Jesus Christ for the blessing, health and opportunity which has

enabled her to complete it without the love of Jesus, the guidance of her lectures,

help from friends, and support from her family. This thesis has been written in

fulfillment of the requirement of the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan of the English

Department, Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of Medan.

The writer was helped by many people through their guides, supports,

prays, comments and suggestions. The writer would like to express her sincere

gratitude to :

1. Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd, the Rector of State University of

Medan.

2. Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean Faculty of Languages and Arts.

3. Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English Department and her

Reviewers Examiners.

4. Nora Ronita Dewi, S. S., M. Hum., the Head of Education Program of

English Department, Dra. Meisuri, MA., the Secretary of English

Department State University of Medan.

5. Dr. Siti Aisah Ginting, M.Pd., and Drs. Johan Sinulingga, M.Pd., her

Thesis Supervisors.

6. Drs. Muhammad Natsir, M.Hum., her Academic Advisor.

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8. The Headmaster of SMA Swasta Sinar Husni Labuhan Deli, Drs. H.

Sosiar, and the writer expresses her special thanks to the English teacher

Sri Rezeki, S.Pd.

9. Her beloved father and mother Ir. Effendy Samosir and Lasmaria

Munthe, her lovely brother Victor Frans Riocardo Samosir, SE., and

sister Vivi Dame Christin Samosir, S.Kom.

10. Her best friends in Class Extension C 2011, Megawati, Sirikit, Yudhi,

S.Pd., Sameris, Sarah, Mauritz, Rindy, her lovely friends Laura

Hutapea, S.Pd., Soly Novalya, S.Pd., Chrisnalia, S.Pd., Felicia Siregar,

Marasultan Badia Raja Manurung.

The writer realizes that the content of this thesis is not perfect, so she

warmly welcomes any constructive suggestions that will improve the

quality of this thesis. She hopes it would be useful for those who are

interested in this field of study.

Medan, February 2016 The Writer

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CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTION ... 1

A. The Background of the Study ... 1

B. The Problems of the Study ... 4

C. The Objectives of the Study ... 4

D. The Scope of the Study ... 4

E. The Significance of the Study ... 4

CHAPTER II.REVIEW OF LITERATURE ... 6

A. Theoretical Framework ... 6

1. Writing ... 6

a. Text ... 7

b. Genre of Text ... 9

2. Narrative Text ... 11

a. Generic Structure of Narrative Text ... 11

b. Language Features of Narrative Text ... 12

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a. The Importance of Media ... 18

b. Kinds of Media ... 19

7. Wordless Picture Book ... 19

a. The Adventages of Wordless Picture Book ... 20

b. The Procedures of Wordless Picture Book ... 21

c. The Applying of Wordless Picture Book ... 23

B. Conceptual Framework ... 24

C. Hypothesis ... 25

CHAPTER III.RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 26

A. Research Design ... 26

B. Population and Sample ... 26

C. Instrument for Collecting the Data ... 27

D. The Procedure of the Research ... 27

E. Validity and Reliability of the Test ... 30

F. Rubric ... 31

G. Technique for Analyzing the Data ... 33

H. The Statistical Hypothesis ... 34

CHAPTER IV.DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS ... 35

CHAPTER V. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 40

A. Conclusions ... 40

B. Suggestions ... 40

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LIST OF TABLES

Pages

Table 2.1 The Example of Narrative ... 13

Table 3.1 Research Design ... 26

Table 3.2 Teaching Procedure in Experimental Groups ... 28

Table 3.3 Teaching Procedure in Control Group ... 29

Table 3.4 Rubric ... 31

Table 4.2.The Percentage of Data Analysis of Deleted Words... 33

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LIST OF PICTURES

Pages

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Pages

Appendix A. Pre-Test For Experimental and Control Group . ... 42

Appendix B. Post-Test For Experimental and Control Group ... 43

Appendix C. The Score of Pre-Test and Post Test in Experimental Group .. 44

Appendix D. The Score of Post-Test and Post Test in Control Group ... 45

Appendix E. Calculation of Mean and Standard Deviation Experimental Group ... 46

Appendix F. Calculation of Mean and Standard Deviation Control Group .. 47

Appendix G. The Calculation of T-Test ... 50

Appendix H. The Reliability of the Test ... 51

Appendix I. Percentage Points of the Distribution ... 54

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A.

Background of The Study

English is one of international languages and it is learned in a lot of

countries. English is used in a particular activity, job and education. In Indonesia,

English has become the first foreign language taught at school. It means that

English becomes a subject and students are supposed to learn English since the

early ages.

In studying English, there are four aspects that will be learned, those are

listening, speaking, reading and writing. Those skills are used to build students’

language strategic competence and also to enhance their motivation to learn

English.

One of the important skills in studying English is writing. Writing is an

activity of how people put the idea, thought and knowledge on a piece of paper.

Writing (as one of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing) has

always been formed as part of the syllabus in the teaching English (Harmer,

2004:30).

Indeed, the writing skill is complex and sometimes difficult to teach,

requiring mastery not only of grammatical and rhetorical devices but also of

conceptual and judgmental elements. Through writing, students are able to

express idea, opinion, experience, comment or information in the form of written

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Based on the writer’s teaching practice experience (PPLT) in Yayasan

Pendidikan Karya Serdang , most of the students always got difficulties when they

were asked to write in English. Based on the observation, the writer found the data

about the writing score test in two semesters. The data can be seen as follows:

Table 1.1 The Grade X students’ Scores of Writing Test

Semester Score Students Percentage

Actually, the students were able to study English, but they could not prove

out their idea and thought specially in writing. It causes of the way of the

teachers’ teaching does not use media. The teaching was monotonous .The

teachers were not able to create the teaching. So, media is one ways that can be

used by teachers to solve the problem ,specially the students will be more easily to

arrange the sentences because the pictures will give them ideas to be written .

A good way for improving students’ writing is by using media. Media is a

medium (Plural, media) is a means of communication and source of information.

Derived from the latin word meaning "between", the term refers to anything that

carries information between a source and a receiver. Examples include video,

television, diagrams, printed material, computer programs, and instructor.

All the explanation above is reflected in a media that is Wordless Picture

Book. A Wordless Picture Book is a book in which illustrations are use for telling

the story without text. Wordless Picture Book is a good media for creative

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process. Students often struggle with ideas and topics for writing. So, Wordless

Picture Book will motivate students to learn and practice critical thinking. It is

really needed in order to help students to decide how to write especially in

narrative text writing.

The effective of the Wordless Picture Book were prove by the order that

were conducted by the following researchers:

1. Ariani (2013) conducted a research about the effect of wordless picture

book on students achievement in writing recount test in SMA Negeri 2

Singaraja. The finding shows that this media effective to be used to

improve students achievement in writing recount text.

2. Ni Kadek Ushani (2014) conducted a reserch in SMA Negeri 2

Abiansemal Bali. The resercher use experimental research in conducting

hi research, and the kind of text that is need is descriptive text . the

sindings of his research show that the scores of the students taught by

using wordless picture book was higher than those who were thaught

without using wordless picture book had better writing achievement and

to help students to expose their idea easily. Its means that there was

improvement on the students writing achievement by using wordless

picture book.

Based on the explanation above ,the works will conduct a research in order

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B.

The Problem of Study

Related to the background of the study, the research problem is formulated

as the following:

“Does the application of wordless Picture Book media significantly affect the

students` achievement in writing narrative text?

C.

The Objective of the Study

The objective of this study is to investigate the significant effect of using

Wordless Picture Book media on the students’ achievement in writing narrative

text.

D.

The Scope of the Study

As we know there are many kinds of media that can be used in the teaching

learning process in order to get the teaching objective. The media are posters,

chart, etc. In this research the media that will be used is Wordless Picture Book .

Beside that, there are also many genres of text such as narrative, recount, report,

explanation, exposition (analytical and hortatory), discussion, procedure, spoof,

anecdote ,news item . The narrative text will be chosen as the kind of writing

because wordless picture book concern with this genre.

E.

The Significance of the Study

a. Theoritical

The findings of the study add new theories in teaching English

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b. Practical

a. For teacher. By the result of the research, the teachers who are

involved in teaching English are aimed to know the effectivenes of

wordless picture book media. The study will be useful to help them

in teaching process, and to have a new way as an alternative in

teaching writing achievement.

b. For students. This study can help them to know easily about how to

write in a good way and to make them more interested in learning

english.

c. Other reseachers who are interested in doing research related to this

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

A. Conclusion

The mean of control and experimental group in the post-test score are 48.7

and 70. The number of students for each group is 30. It means that the mean score

of experimental group is higher than those of control group.

The result of calculation of t-test shows that the score of t-observe (3.004)

< the score of t-table (2,000). It means that the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected

and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. So, from the calculation of the

data, it can be concluded that wordless picture book media significantly affects the

students’ achievement in writing narrative text.

B. Suggestions

The researcher point out some suggestions as following:

1. The English teachers apply Wordless Picture Book media on their English

Teaching because these media help the students in understanding the

narrative text much better.

2. The students to involve actively in this because it facilitates them to share

ideas and information before they write. Than by applying of Wordless

Picture Book media, the students can write narrative text.

3. To other researchers, Wordless Picture Book media can apply to other

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