THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE SERIES TOWARD STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL IN RECOUNT TEXT

Abstract

This research was aimed to obtain empirical evidence of the effectiveness of using picture series toward students’ writing skill of recount text. To get the further information  about  the  result,  this  research  also  tried  to  find  out  how  well  picture series  work  on  students’  writing  skill  of  recount  text.  The  method  used  in  this research was a quantitative method. The design was a quasi-experimental study and the  primary  instrument  of  this  research  was  test.  The  samples  were  taken  from  the tenth grade students of SMKN 6 Surabaya by using random sampling. The total sample of this study was 32 students,  which are 16 students as experimental class  while 16 students as controlled class. The calculation of this research  was conducted though SPSS 15. The test of hypothesis proved that sig. 2 tailed (p) was 0.049 while alpha (α) was 0.05. In other words, p < α. It meant that the Ho (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and  Ha (Alternative  Hypothesis)  was  accepted.  It  proved  that  there  was  a positive effect  of  picture  series  toward  students’  writing  skill  of  recount  text.  Furthermore, Cohen’s  formulation  which  was  calculated  in  order  to  see  the  effect  size  of  picture series result was 0.49. It means that the effect of this treatment was modest.