THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ANIMAL CARTOON PICTURE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of using animal cartoon pictures to improve students’ English narrative text writing at SMP Swasta PGRI 3 Medan. The population of this study were student in class VIII 4 and VIII 5, who were taken from two classes. The sample consisted of 84 students which were taken by random sampling technique and divided into two different groups namely experimental and control groups. In analyzing the data obtained from the results of the study was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Data collected comparisons were made in the form of pretest scores andpost test scores. Then the two scores were compared to know a difference between the pretestscore and the Post test score Test ("t-test") tests of score differences are only carried out on the average of the two scores, for which a technique called the t-test is used. Therefore, therewas One Group Pretest and Post test. This research found that t observation (2023). This is higher than the t table (86.77) from hypothesis testing, so it can be said that there is an the effectiveness of using animal cartoon pictures to improve students’ English narrative text writing in class VII SMP Swasta PGRI 3 Medan students.