Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students could
not write in English well. This problem was caused by some factors. Some of them
still had lack of vocabulary, so that they were confused to write in English. They were
also difficult to use good grammatical order. And they could not write the descriptive
paragraph with the clear information. So, the writer was interested in carrying out the
research about this problem. The purpose of this research was to obtain the effect of
using cartoon media on Students’ writing ability in descriptive text at state Islamic
junior high school Dar-el school Pekanbaru. The research was administered at state
Islamic junior high school Dar-el Hikmah Pekanbaru. The subject was the eighth
grade students of state Islamic junior high school Dar-el Hikmah Pekanbaru and the
object of this research was the effect of using cartoon media on Students’ writing
ability in descriptive text. The design of this research was Quasi-Experimental
Research. The Population of this research was all of the eighth grade students. The
total number of population was 223 students. The writer used cluster sampling
technique by taking only two classes as sample; VIII.A1
that consisted of 21 students
as experimental class and VIII.A2
consisted 21 students as control class. So the
number of the samples from two classes was 42 students. To analyze the data, the
writer used independent sample t-test formula by using software SPSS 17. After
analyzing the data, the researcher found that there is significant effect of using
cartoon media on Students’ writing ability in descriptive text at state Islamic junior
high school Dar-el Hikmah Pekanbaru, where tobtained= 3.109 with df= 40. In
tobtain= 3.109 is bigger than ttable = 2.021 (at significance level of 5%) and ttable =
1.684 (at significance level of 1%); 1.684 ≤3.109≥2.021. It means Ha is accepted and
Ho is rejected.
Key word: Catoon Media, Descriptive Paragraph
