THE EFFECTS OF MULTIMEDIA ON STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING LEARNING IN FOURTH GRADE

THE EFFECTS OF MULTIMEDIA ON STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING LEARNING IN FOURTH GRADE

by:

Laila Mega Wardhani

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to find the effects of multimedia on descriptive writing skill of fourth grade students. This study used quasi experiment with pretest-posttest intact group design as research design. This study involved 60 students of fourth grade, 30 students as experiment group and 30 students as control group. This study used descriptive writing skill rubric, questionnaire, and observation as research instrument. Multimedia was used in experiment group while control group used conventional media. From the result, the experimental group’s score was significantly higher than control group; significant (2-tailed) value was 0.00. The result also showed that there were differences between experiment and control group through N-gain. Experiment group got 0,4 in average while control group got 0,2. The questionnaire showed 93% students felt excited using multimedia, 67% students stated that multimedia helped them in writing, 96% students thought that multimedia helped them in increasing their writing skill and 90% students asserted that using multimedia was easy. So, it can be concluded that multimedia gave higher effects in increasing descriptive writing skill than learning without multimedia. Furthermore, multimedia gave more exciting experience in learning writing.

Keywords: multimedia, writing, descriptive writing