COMPETENCE IN WRITING ENGLISH BASED ON USING AND WITHOUT USING PICTURE IN TEACHING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The objective of the study is to described (1) the extent of students writing ability based on picture; (2) the extent of students writing ability without using picture; and (3) to describe the differences of students writing competence based on picture and without picture. This study was applied two post test and required two randomly assigned groups of sample, each group is designed to a different condition, no pre-test used. The instruments are a sequence of picture and a topic without picture, in which one group is given a topic by providing a sequence of picture and the other is given a topic without picture. There are two different topic given, those are, for writing based on picture, with topic „sending a parcel‟ and for writing without using picture, with the topic „going to the beach‟. The sample of this study is Class VIIIB. The students composition are scored by two raters who are the English teacher taught at class VIII and the writer himself. The students composition are rated randomly in the process of inter-rater agreement. Both raters rated the students writing composition independently in order to know the coefficient correlation of both raters in scoring the students composition. The result of the study showed that (1) the average score of students composition in writing based on picture of the three components are classified at „fair to poor‟ level; (2) the average score of students composition in writing without using picture for content aspect is classified at „very poor‟ level and for organization and vocabulary aspects are classified at „fair to poor‟ level; and (3) from the computation of the t-test was found that the t-test is only 0.64.Key Words: Competence in writing English, instructional media (using picture and without usingpicture), and teaching Junior High School students.