Using Picture To Increase The Ability Of The First Year Students Of Smpn 2 Tambang In Writing Descriptive Paragraph

Abstract

This action research is aimed at increasing the students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraphby using picture. This research was conducted in two cycles, each of them was done in four meetings.Before using the picture a pre-test was conducted while a post-test was administered after the treatments.The data were analyzed by comparing the result of pre-test and the result of post test. After doing sometreatments, the data were analyzed. Based on the data finding there is an increasing score between the pre-test and the post-test. The pre-test is 28.84 while the post test in Cycle 1 is 49.84 and 61.11 in the Cycle 2Post-Test. It can be concluded that using picture can increase the students’ ability in writing descriptiveparagraph.