Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Key words : picture and picture model, writing this study is intended to find out whether the use of picture and picture model improve students’ writing ability in writing narrative text. the writer concucted an experimental research in sman 1 peukan. in this study, the writer used one group pretest-posttest design. the pre test was given before experimental action in order to know the students’ achievement before the treatment. in addition, the post test was given to know the students’ achievement after the treatment. in order to find the differences between pre test and post test achievement, the writer used t-score. the result shows that the mean score of the pre test is 37.5 and the score of the post test is 74 and the result of t-score is 14.3. the t-value at the level significant 0.05 is 2.120 and at the level of significant 0.01 is 2.921 with the degree of freedom 16. since, the result of t-test is higher than t-value, the alternate hypothesis is accepted. in other words, there is a significant difference between the pre test and the post test score. it proves that the use of picture and picture model is effective to improve students’ ability in writing narrative text.