The background of the study in this research is based on the students have difficulties in comprehending writing procedure texts, because in the teaching and learning process the teacher only explains what the procedure texts is. To develop this skill, the teacher needs strategy through using a medium that will make students enjoy and easy to write. Picture is a medium that can be used in teaching writing procedure texts.
The problem of this research can be stated as following question: 1) How well does picture give contribution to teach procedure text to the ninth grade students of MTs Nahdlatusy Syubban Sayung Demak in the academic year of 2014/2015. 2) Are there any differences in writing procedure text achievement between students taught using pictures and those taught using the traditional method of ninth grade students of MTs Nahdlatusy Syubban Sayung Demak in the academic year of 2014/2015?. Its purposes are: 1) To describe how well pictures give contribution to teach procedure text of the ninth grade students of MTs Nahdlatusy Syubban Sayung Demak in academic year 2014/2015. 2) To search whether there are different effect on writing procedure text achievement between those taught using pictures and those taught using the traditional method.
The population of this research was the ninth grade students of MTs Nahdlatusy Syubban Sayung Demak. The research method was an experimental research, which was conducted in two classes; the experimental class (IX B) and control class (IX A) . The experimental class was taught using picture, while the control class was taught without picture (using text). The writer gave writing test to get the data. There are two test; pre test and post test. The formula that was used to analyze the data was t-test. It was used to determine a significant difference between students’ score in experimental class and students’ score in control class.
After the data had been collected by using test, it was found that the pretest average of the experimental class was 51.14 and control class was 49.24. While, the post-test average of the experimental class was 83.63 and control class were 72.79. The obtained t-test was 6.770, whereas the t-table was 1.67 for a = 5%. The t-test score was higher than the t-table (6.770 > 1.67). It meant that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. Since t-test score was higher than the t-table, picture was an effective medium in improving students’ procedure writing MTs Nahdlatusy Syubban Sayung Demak.
Based on the finding, the writer assumes that picture may be used as one of alternative medium in the teaching of procedure writing.