IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT USING STORY BOARD AT THE NINTH GRADE OF SMPN 7 PALOPO

ABSTRACT
Putri Adilah, 2024. "Improving Students Writing Skill in Recount Text
Using Story Board at The Ninth Grade of SMPN 7
Palopo". A thesis of English Language Education
Study Program of Education and Teacher Training
Faculty at State Islamic of Palopo. They were
supervised by: Amalia Yahya, S.E., M.Humand
Rusdiansyah, S.Pd., M.Hum.
This research attempted to determine the use of Story Board in teaching writing
skills in recount text in the ninth grade of SMPN 7 Palopo. The problem statement
of this research is: "Is the use of a storyboard effective to improve students'
writing skills in recount text of ninth grade at SMPN 7 Palopo?" Based on the
description above, the research objectives were to determine whether or not to use
a storyboard in teaching writing to improve students' writing skills in recount text
in ninth grade of SMPN 7 Palopo. This study applied a pre-experimental method.
The researcher gets the score on five aspects of writing skills, content,
organization, vocabulary, grammar/language use and mechanics, by using a pre�test and post-test test. The population of this research was the ninth-grade students
at SMPN 7 Palopo. There were 19 students as the sample, which is by purposive
sampling. This research showed that the mean score of students writing tests in
the post-test was 73.21, which is higher than the pre-test score, 60.37. Then the
value of tc(tcount)= 7.56 was higher than tt(ttable)= 2.064. It means the alternative
hypothesis (H1) is accepted, and (H0) is rejected. It concludes that using a
storyboard to improve students' writing skills in recounting text in the ninth grade
of SMPN 7 Palopo was effective.
Keywords: Storyboard, Recount Text, Writing Skills, Teaching Writing.