<![CDATA[Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan menulis siswa dalam pembelajaran teks recount dengan menggunakan sequence of pictures dan mengetahui aspek kemampuan menulis siswa yang paling meningkat setelah mereka diajarkan menggunakan sequence of pictures. Desain yang digunakan ialah satu kelompok pretest posttest. Subjek penelitian ini ialah 30 siswa kelas VIII C MTsN 1 Bandar Lampung. Instrumen yang digunakan ialah tes menulis. Data dalam bentuk skor yang diambil dari pretest dan posttest dan dianalisis dengan menggunakan Paired Sampel t-test. Penelitian ini menemukan adanya peningkatan statistik kemampuan menulis siswa dalam pembelajaran teks recount dilihat dari skor pretest ke skor posttest (58,9 menjadi 70,8) setelah menggunakan sequence of pictures. Aspek penulisan yang paling meningkat ialah konten karena sifat sequence of pictutres memandu siswa untuk mengembangkan ide-ide.The aims of this study were to find out whether there was any improvement of the students’ writing skill in recount text after they have been taught by using sequence of pictures and to investigate which aspects of the students’ writing skill improved the most after they have been taught by using sequence of pictures. The design used was one group pretest posttest. The subjects were 30 students of class VIIIC of MTsN 1 Bandar Lampung. The instrument was a writing test. The data were in form of scores taken from the pretest and posttest and were analyzed by using Paired Sampel t-test. The result showed there was a statistically improvement of students’ writing skill in recount text viewed from the pretest score to the posttest score (58.9 to 70.8) after they have been taught by using sequence of pictures. The aspect of writing that improved the most was content. This is because the nature of sequence of pictures mainly guides the students to develop the ideas.Keywords: recount text, sequence of pictures, writing. ]]>
