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The Implementation of Pictorial Story to Enhance Students’

Writing Achievement at SMP Muhammadiyah 08 Batu

THESIS

By:

MERINA PRISKA AMELIA

201210100311210

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2017

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All praise and great gratitude to Almighty God submitted by the researcher

to Allah SWT for blessing and help to complete this thesis to fulfill one of the

requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education.

On this occasion with great humility, I would like to thank you to all of

those who have given me help and guidance, therefore this thesis can be finished.

This study was made possible through the support, guidance, and encouragement

from many wonderful people. The completion of writing this thesis, the researcher

would like to thank to the following:

First, the researcher would like to thank to the beloved advisors, Bayu H.

Wicaksono, M.Ed., Ph.D and Erlyna Abidasari, M.A., M.Ed, for their guidance,

help and direction as well as encouragement that very useful during the process of

writing this thesis.

My gratitude is also extended to Anis Syaidah, S.Pd as English teacher in

SMP Muhammadiyah 08 Batu for her permission to let the reseacher conduct a

research in her class. In addition, to all students VIIIA and VIIIB at SMP

Muhammadiyah 08 Batu that become the important part in this thesis.

Furthermore, the biggest gratitude especially to the researcher’s parents

and sister for their loves, supports, understandings, and prayers throughout her

sarjana study.

Last but not less, to all of researcher friends, Fitri, Hafid, Via, Eka, Ocha,

Flo, Nike, Yunita, Weni, Apriani and Robiatul who always accompany and help

the researcher. Thank you very much for all great moments, tease, smile, laugh,

support and everything that you have done to me. You all are my beloved friends

Finally, the researcher is expected that this thesis will give contribution to

the educational world, especially for the English development of knowledge in the

future.

Malang, 30 January 2017

The Researcher

Merina Priska Amelia

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE .............................................................................................. i

APPROVAL PAGE .................................................................................... ii

EXAMINERS APPROVAL ..................................................................... iii

DECLARATION ....................................................................................... iv

MOTTO AND DEDICATION .................................................................. v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................... vi

ABSTRACT .............................................................................................. vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................ viii

LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................... x

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

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

1.2 Statement of the Problem ....................................................................... 3

1.3 Hypothesis of the Study .......................................................................... 3

1.4 Purposes of the Study ............................................................................. 4

1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study .......................................................... 4

1.6 Significance of the Study ........................................................................ 4

1.7 Definition of Key Terms ........................................................................ 4

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Media ....................................................................................................... 6

2.2 Types of Media ........................................................................................ 7

2.3 Picture ..................................................................................................... 8

2.4 Teaching Writing through Pictorial Story ................................................ 9

2.5 Advantages of Teaching Writing using Picture ...................................... 10

2.6 The Procedure of Implementation of Pictorial Story ............................... 10

2.7 Related Studies ........................................................................................ 12

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 Research Design ...................................................................................... 14

3.2 Population and Sample ................................................................................ 15

3.3 Research Instrument ................................................................................. 16

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3.4 The Data Collection Procedures .............................................................. 17

3.5 Data Analysis .......................................................................................... 18

CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Research Finding ................................................................................. 21

4.1.1 The Result of Pretest of the Experimental and Control Groups .......... 21

4.1.2 The Result of Posttest of the Experimental and Control Group ........... 23

4.1.3 The Result of the Hypothesis Testing ................................................... 25

4.2 Discussion ............................................................................................. 27

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion .............................................................................................. 30

5.2 Suggestions ............................................................................................. 30

REFERENCES ............................................................................................ 33

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1 : The Lesson Plan of Experimental and Control Group ....... 38

APPENDIX II : The Pretest and Posttest form............................................. 47

APPENDIX III : The Result of Posttest, Treatment and Pretest ................... 55

APPENDIX IV : The Tabel of Data Tabulation ............................................ 61

APPENDIX V : The Results of Validity, Reliability, Homogenity,

Normality and T- test check with SPSS ........................... 64

APPENDIX VI : The latter of Research Permitt .......................................... 73

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.1: Quasi Experimental Design (Pretest and Posttest)....................... 15

Table 3.2: Rubric Scoring of Writing Performance ...................................... 16

Table 3.3: The Preparation of Formula .......................................................... 18

Table 4.1 The Result of Pretest of Experimental and Control Groups .......... 21

Table 4.2: The Result of Posttest of Experimental and Control Groups ........ 23

Table 4.3: The table of Paired Sample T- test Computation ......................... 25

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