Digital Library: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. 2024-03-28T11:21:24ZEPrintshttp://digilib.unila.ac.id/images/sitelogo.pnghttp://digilib.unila.ac.id/2015-05-05T03:17:22Z2015-10-16T03:01:17Zhttp://digilib.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/9721This item is in the repository with the URL: http://digilib.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/97212015-05-05T03:17:22ZIMPROVING STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY
THROUGH CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) by USING
PICTURE FOR THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 1
NATAR LAMPUNG SELATAN 2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEARWriting is the most difficult language skill to master according to most students. In
writing, the writer should consider many aspects, such as content, organization,
vocabulary, grammar and mechanics to avoid the ambiguity and misunderstanding of
meaning between the writer and the readers. According to KTSP 2006, the students
are expected to be able to communicate in English in spoken and in written forms.
Writing is very difficult for them, although they had given a topic to write, they are
can not automatically start to write because they are can not organize their ideas
chronologically.
The objectives of this research were 1). In general, to find out whether there is any
differences or not of students’ descriptive writing ability after they are taught through
Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL) by using picture and 2) specifically, to find out
whether there is improvement of students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph in
terms of content, grammar, organization, vocabulary, and mechanic or not. Pictures
bring the real word into the classroom and provide a context for language learning, it
means that picture can be used in Teaching Learning English.
This research applied one group pretest posttest design from the idea suggested by
Hacth&Farhady. The subjects of the research were the second year students of SMP
NEGERI 1 NATAR, Lampung Selatan in 2010/2011 academic year. The class
consisted of 30 students. The classes were determined randomly.
The result of the test shows that there is a significant improvement of students score
from pre test to post test after being taught through CTL by using pictures. The
improvement of the mean is from 59.08 up to 70.33. The application of the method
also improves all aspects of writing; content 12.33 up to 13.5, grammar 10.41 up to
15.16, organization 10.99 up to 13.75, vocabulary 12.58 up to 12.83, and mechanic
12.75 up to 15.00. The students’ score of pre test in this class was 24 students (80%)
got scores lower than 65 and only 6 students (20%) got scores higher than 65.
The students’ score of post test in this class show that there were only 7 students
(23,34%) who got scores less than 65 and the rest, 23 students (77,66%) got scores
more than 65. It could be inferred that the improvement of students’ ability before
and after treatment shows that CTL by using pictures can be applied in teaching
writing.
The researcher used T-Test at the level significance (0.01) to prove whether the
hypothesis is accepted or not. The computation showed that t-ratio ( 11.080) is much
bigger than the –table (2,462), it means t-ratio>t-table. It can be concluded that that
there is a significant improvement in the application of CTL toward students’ ability
in writing descriptive text. In the word, the hypothesis is acceptedLinduani Putri I Halawa 0613042006