The Effectiveness of Using Sequence Pictures for Teaching Writing Procedure Text

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find out whether using sequence pictures was effective or not for teaching writing procedure text. The population of this study was the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Tonjong, Brebes in the academic year 2014/2015. The samples of the study were class IX B as experimental class which consisted of 35 students and class IX C as control class which consisted of 35 students. The design of this study was an experimental study. The writer used pre and post-test in collecting the data and used quantitative method to analyse the data. The mean of experimental class was 79.94, higher than control class 74.71. Then the result of the mean of post-test of experimental class was 79.94, higher than pre-test 72.66. For that reason, it could be concluded that sequence pictures was effective for teaching writing procedure text on the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Tonjong in the academic year 2014/2015.