THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING VIDEO TO TEACH WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 02 JATINEGARA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Azizah, Anita Dewi Nur 2019. “The Effectiveness of Using Video to Teach
Writing Descriptive Text: An Experimental Study at the Seventh Grade
Students of SMP N 02 Jatinegara in the Academic Year
2019/2020”.Final Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty
of Language and Arts Education, University of PGRI Semarang.
Advisor I: Dra. Maria Yosephine, MPd, Advisor II: Sri Wahyuni, S.Pd,
M.Pd.
Keywords : Video, Writing, Descriptive Text
The objectives of this final project were 1) to find out the students‟ ability in
writing descriptive text before they were taught by using video.2) to find out the
students‟ ability in writing descriptive text after they were taught by using video.
3) to find out whether there is significant differences of students‟ writing ability
before and after they were taught by using video. The methodology used in this
final project is pre-experimental study with one group pretest-posttest design.
There were 160 students, which were divided in five classes. The writer took one
class. It was VII A class, which consisted of 32 students. The result shows that
there is a significant difference between the result of pre-test and post-test. The
mean of pre-test was 55,15 and then the mean of post-test was 72,03. From the
result, there is a significant improvements of the students after the writer gave a
treatment, it can be known by t-test computation. The result of t-test was 10,445
with the degrees of freedom (df=31) and the t-table was 2,040. It showed that
result of t-test was higher than t-table (10,445>2,040). Finally the writer conclude
that there was a significant difference between student‟s writing ability in
descriptive text before and after being taught using video.