IMPROVING STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING SKILLS THROUGH PICTURES

Billy Goncalves, Jose Sarmento, Sebastião Pereira

Abstract


This study used Classroom Action Research which aimed to find out using pictures to improve students’ descriptive writing the second-grade students of the Escola de Hospitalidade e Turismo Becora Dili in the school year 2021. Based on the title above, the writer conducted the research to answer the following questions: (1) Can Picture improve students' Descriptive Writing skills? and (2) Are there any significant differences between before and after the implementation of teaching descriptive writing through pictures? Based on the result of conducting research, shows that pictures can improve students’ descriptive writing because the mean score on the pre-test was 4.5 and the mean score on the post-test got increased by 8.05. it is meant that there were some significant differences between the means scores of the pre-test and post-test indicated before and after the implementation using the pictures is a useful strategy to teach to improve the students’ descriptive writing skills in the class. Besides that, the differences between means scores of the pre-test and post-test were analyzed with the formula of the t-test was 3.5. Based on the level of significance is 0, 05 with the 17 degrees of freedom could meet the score of the t-table is 2. 291. As we have seen that the t-test score was 3.5 is greater than the score of t-table 2.291. Therefore, it is decided to interpret that pictures can improve students’ descriptive writing and there were some significant differences between before and after the implementation of teaching descriptive writing by using pictures to the second-grade students of Escola de Hospitalidade e Turismo Becora Dili in the school year 2021. This is the reason why, the picture can be considered a useful strategy to teach Descriptive Writing Skills.  And the picture made the students more interested, relax easy to identify what is described in the writing. Lastly, Students and English teachers are recommended to produce the module on English descriptive writing through the content of pictures as a strategy and completed the lesson plan for teaching English material. The picture is a thing that can be seen and touched to facilitate our imagination and thinking sharply to describe the thing in writing easily.

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