Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : putri ayu r. hsb student no. : 1006102020041 study program : english education title : the use of caricature to teach writing ability of descriptive text (an experimental study to seventh grade students at smp negeri 1 banda aceh) keywords: writing skill, caricature, this study was a quantitative research with experimental study of pretest-posttest group design. it was intended to examine the use of caricature to improve students’ descriptive text writing. the researcher used caricature picture test as the instrument. the result showed that the mean score of the pretest was 50.25; meanwhile, the posttest was 79.03. it meant that there was a significant improvement on students’ ability in writing descriptive text after caricature was used. it is obvious that caricature can be one of alternative media used by the teacher in teaching english particularly teaching writing in efl class. therefore, it is important for english teachers to give and provide the effective media that help the students elaborate and construct the idea for improving writing skill such as caricature.