Abstract:
This study is intended to find out the effect of Picture Dictation Technique in
listening descriptive text. The method of the research was experiment quantitative
design. The population of the of the study was the seventh grade students’ of SMP
Muhammadiyah 58 Sukaramai. There were two classes in the school. Each class
consist of 21 students; the classes were divided into two groups, namely
experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by
Picture Dictation Technique, while control group was taught conventional way.
The instrument used to collect the data was a set multiple choice tests consists of
20 items. The post- test and pre-test administrated. The data were analyzed by
using t-test. The calculation result showed that the tobserved is higher than ttable value
(5.793 > 1.693) at the level of significance α 0.05 of Picture Dictation Technique.
Based on the finding above the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that applying Picture Dictation
Technique has significantly affected on the Students’ Ability Listening
Descriptive Text.
