Digital Photographs As Authentic Materials In Teaching Writing
Abstract
Digital photograph is one of the authentic materials which can be used in the classroom. It is the genuine material designed to help the students in writing process. It is not in the form of printed photograph but in the electronic form. In this study, digital photographs were used to help the students in writing paragraph. It aimed at investigating the use of digital photographs in paragraph writing on the students’ writing quality. The research was conducted by using quasi-experimental design. The students were given the treatment by using digital photographs and the other group was not given the treatment by using digital photographs. The subjects of the research were the second semester students of the English Department, IKIP PGRI Madiun. The students in the experimental group were assigned to write a paragraph by using digital photographs, while those in the control group were assigned to write a paragraph without digital photograph. The data were analyzed by utilizing t-test. The result of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the students who wrote paragraph supplied with the digital photographs and those who wrote paragraph without using digital photographs. It could be shown that digital photographs had a significant effect on writing quality.
Keywords: writing, authentic materials, digital photographs.
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