The Effect of Picture Sequences on Students' Writing Skill to Summarize Narrative Text

Abstract

This study is aimed to find evidence of picture sequences on students’ writing skill to summarize narrative text. Picture Sequences as learning media is used as a solution to solve students' problems in writing skill to summarize text. Picture Sequences is learning media that sequence pictures. So that it can train students to compose stories easily. The method of this research was a quantitative method with experimental design. The design in this research is experimental research. Sample of this research used purposive sampling technique. The subject of this research was the eighth-grade students’ of SMP Negeri 43 Medan which consisted of 60 students. The research instrument was a test. The test which divided into pre-test and post-test. VIII-3 class as an experimental class and VIII-4 class as a control class. The data obtained from the test were analyzed using the SPSS statistic 25 program. The results of descriptive statistics analysis showed that the mean score in pre-test was 43,93 and in the post-test was 74,9. Based on the hypothesis testing criteria, namely sig. 2 tails lower than 0.05. So, Ho (Null Hypothesis) is rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) is accepted. In this research, the results of sig. 2 tailed is 0.000 < 0.05 which indicates that there is a significant effect of picture sequences to increase the students’ writing skill to summarize text.