THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MULTIMODALITY ON STUDENT’S ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Nining Setyani

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Abstract: Writing is considered an important skill used to convey the idea in textual form, descriptive writing is abasic forms of writing skills that used to describe an object, person, or event in detail. In writing descriptive text, students should include detailed information to represent the subject that they write in their descriptive text. It is important to develop a teaching method that supports the students to gather that information in detail by incorporating multimodality to support students in gathering details for their descriptive text. Thus, the researcher aims to study the effectiveness of teaching using multimodality toward students' skills to write descriptive text. Quantitative experimental designwas employed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching using multimodality toward students' skills to write descriptive text. The study was conducted on 60 students from 7th grade at SMPN 1 Gemarang usingpretest and posttest. The data is analyzed using SPSS 24.0 with an independent sample t-test to compare the difference in mean scores between control and experimental groups. The result reveals no significant difference between the score of pretests of the experimental and control groups indicating that the abilities of both classes are not significantly different. But, the score of posttests indicates that the difference is significant at 0.009 which is less than 0.05, implyingthe significant differences between the experimental and control group with the mean difference of 4.0833 indicated that the experimental group took the lead after the treatment, which means that the multimodal approach is better at improving students' skills in writing descriptive text.

 

Keywords: Effectiveness, multimodality, descriptive writing


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