THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH ON STUDENTS’ WRITING QUANTITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Second Year Students of SMAN 8 Bengkulu in 2006/2007 Academic Year)

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of personal photographs on students writing
quantity of descriptive text. The population of this study was all the students of the second
year of SMAN 8 Bengkulu in academic year 2006/2007 with the total number of 200 students.
The sample of this research was taken by random sampling. By using the cluster-sampling
technique, 80 students were taken as the samples. The samples divided into two groups,
experimental and control group. The instrument employed in this study was writing tests. The
pre-test was conducted before giving treatments in order to know the degree of relevance of
both groups. In the pre-test analysis, it was found that the t-count < t-table (0,12 < 2,000) for
the analysis amount of words and t-count < t-table (0,26 < 2,000) for the analysis amount of
sentences. It means that there were no significant difference between the two groups scores.
Therefore, the two groups can be accepted as the samples of this study. After giving some
treatments to the experimental group, the post-test was held to the both groups. Based on the
data analysis of the post-test, it was found that t-count > t-table (3,76 > 2,000) for the
analysis amount of words and t-count > t-table (4,1 > 2,000) for the analysis amount of
sentences. This finding indicated that there was a significant difference between the
experimental and control group scores. It means that students’ personal photographs had a
significant effect on their writing quantity. In the other words, the use of personal photographs
could increase students’ writing quantity especially in descriptive text. Therefore, this
technique can be applied by teacher as a teaching aid in descriptive text’s writing