THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF GRAPHICS MEDIA ON THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Abstract

This research focuses on determining the extent of graphics media development and application on the students’ writing ability of the fifth semester students of Indonesian and Literature at Faculty of Teacher Training and EducationNommensen University in Academic year 2019/2020. This research is designed by Experimental Research Design, the sample is divided into two groups namely the experimental group and the control group. Quantitative data is used to answer the research question or problem which was obtained by using essay test instruments that contain writing narrative paragraphs based on the type of graphics presented to the experimental group. Based on the statistical data analysis, it is obtained that: (1) The fifth semester students’ ability to write narrative paragraphs is categorized as good with an average of 72.25. (2) The results of the hypothesis test shows that tcount>table (4.06>1.65) thus the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) proposed is accepted, and the Null Hypothesis (H0) is rejected.