An Analysis of the Use of Picture in Helping Students’ Generating Ideas in Writing Descriptive Text

This research aims to investigate whether or not the use of picture helps students’ ability in generating ideas in writing descriptive text and to explore the students’ responses toward the use of pictures in generating ideas in writing descriptive text. This research used descriptive quantitative approach; and the data were collected through test and questionnaire. This research was conducted at second grade of SMPN I Danau Paris; and the writer took class VIII-A as the sample of this study by using random sampling. The result of the study revealed that the pre-test was 13, 40 and the post-test was 15, 88; it means that post-test was higher than pre-test. It can be concluded that picture helped students in generating ideas in writing descriptive text. Furthermore, the finding of the questionnaire showed that 10 students (37%) had high score while 17 students (63%) had very high score, and none of the students had very low score and low score. In conclusion, students gave positive responses toward the use of picture in helping them in generating ideas.