THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER-MULTIMEDIA FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This study dealt with the implementation of Computer-Multimedia for teaching Descriptive Text. The objectives of this study is the class X MIPA students at SMA PGRI 12 MEDAN, which will be implemented from 02nd February 2023 to 31st March 2023. As the data, mixed methods, namely descriptive qualitative methods and quantitative methods are used in this study. Questionnaires and the interview guide line were the instrument used in the research to obtain the data. The data from the questionnaires were analyzed quantitatively and the data from the interview were investigated qualitatively. The first stage of the research was conducting need analysis. The result of the need analysis showed that the students needed materials for writing skills which were attractive and interesting and based on their study background. Based on the questionnaire that was distributed to students there were 10 questions that were asked then I found 8 needs of students in the English learning process, especially descriptive text material, namely goals, wants, procedure, lacks, the involvement of technology (computer-multimedia), needs, learners' roles , settings. which of the 8 types of student needs in learning English can be concluded that the need for material that can help develop vocabulary, grammar and text structure is what they want to focus on most in writing, meanwhile to stimulate students' interest in learning English in particular They chose to use audio and illustrations for their descriptive text material so that the use of multimedia computers really helps students in the learning process. Based on the interviews conducted with teachers it turns out that there are still many students who pay less attention to learning material by making noise so that the teacher only focuses on students who really want to follow the instructions given by the teacher in the learning process. While the results of interviews conducted with students shows that the methods used in the learning process were less interesting, so that students felt easily bored.