THE USE OF DIGITAL PICTURE SERIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

This study aimed to find out whether using digital picture series to improved students’ writing achievement in descriptive text. The research was quantitative and used a one group pretest and posttest design. The population was the eighth-grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Bandar Lampung, and the sample was class 8A with 30 students. The students took a writing test before and after the treatment. The data were analyzed by using the Paired Sample t-test in SPSS 25. The results showed that the students’ mean score increased from 60 in the pre-test to 66 in the post-test in a gain score of 6. The N-gain analysis revealed low improvement in content (0.11), organization (0.17), vocabulary (0.18), and language use/grammar (0.16), while mechanics showed the highest improvement with a medium N-gain score of 0.34. The two-tailed significance value was