USING PICTURES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 6 MANADO

: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of images can improve students' understanding of explanatory texts. It was held at SMP Negeri 6 Manado. One group pre-test-a quantitative study through post-test design. The teaching method used for treatment was to use images. The respondents of this study consisted of 7 classes in the second grade, and the sample of this study consisted of VII1, and 25 students. They analyzed statistically, taking into account the average score of the test. The results of this study showed that the post-examination score was higher than the pre-examination. The average score for the post-test (T2) is 8,52 and the average score for the pre-test (T1) is 5. This shows that the use of diagrams improves the student's comprehension of the explanatory text. The results of can conclude that it is effective to use figures when teaching explanatory texts.


INTRODUCTION
Schooling is a significant resource in the age of human existence. Adequate schooling and broad information will actually want to plan youthful age to construct the country and the nation better. As per the 1945 Constitution that the motivation behind instruction is teaching the country. Discussing instruction clearly we need "language" to learn. communication is a basic thing for person. Language is the instrument of communication which expects a big part to uncover an objective to someone else. Individuals these days need to learn English Language.
Communication in English language is seriously required on the grounds that English language is a worldwide language.
Today a great many people communicate in English when they meet outsiders. There are numerous reasons why English has gotten so famous. One of them is that English has become the language of business Another significant explanation is that mainstream American culture (like motion pictures. music, and so forth) has immediately spread all through the world. It has carried its language with it. English is likewise fundamental for schooling. In numerous nations, kids are educated and urged to learn English as a subsequent language. Practically 90% instructive subjects are written in English. We can see in our daily activities, most of books, articles, journals are written in English.
English is taught and used as a foreign language in Indonesia. Based on curriculum 2013 that applies sow, English to one of the subjects taught in junior high school. English is also one of the subjects taught in SMP Negeri 6 Manado. The researcher found problem in teaching reading comprehension to the students of SMP Negeri 6 Manado. The students need much time in order to master the material.
Based on curriculum 2013 there are a number types of text that have been taught junior high school and one of them is descriptive text According of Mukarto et.al. (2007) "Descriptive text is a kind of text to describe something, someone or place. Descriptive text is a text that describe something. The purpose of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place, or thing. There are many problems in teaching descriptive text. The students cannot answer correctly teacher's questions about descriptive text, most of the students have difficulties to understand what they have read and the teacher sometimes cannot handle the class. The teacher cannot get students" attention because students already bored with the teacher's teaching style. Teachers should be able to find or create ways to make the students become active. Students" learning outcomes can be improved in various ways such as using games, by using taperecorders, pictures-flashcard and television , etc.
The researcher 1s interested in using the other method that can increase the students' comprehension about descriptive text, One of the methods is using pictures. The researcher is interested in using pictures in teaching descriptive text.
Using picture m teaching descriptive text is considered powerful and accommodating in showing learning measure, so the understudies feel simple in comprehension and examining English. The picture can be used to illustrate a picture of animals, person, and places that is for practicing in learning process.

METHODOLOGY
The research design is a quantitative research because the data is in digital form. This survey is designed for pre-experiment, with pre-test group and post-test group. The pre-test is the test that the student receives before treatment. The posttest is a test conducted on the interviewee after receiving the treatment, or through picture teaching, to understand the students' understanding of the descriptive text after the treatment.
There were two tests : T1 was the Pre-test and T2 was the Post-Test. X was used to symbolize the treatment in the following of the design. The data collection procedure were as follows : • Giving Pre test.
• Analyzing the data taken from the result of the pre test.
• Teaching the students descriptive text by using pictures.
• Giving Post test.
In analyzing the data, the writer used mean score formula: The aim of the data analysis is to organize the information collected in research using frequency distribution. The data are presently graphically as a cumulative relative frequency distribution.

Recapitulation of the mean ( ̅)and standard deviation (s)
. The result of this research reveals that the mean score of post-test (8.52) was higher than the pre-test (5) . In addition the standard deviation of pre-test is slightly higher (1) than the standard deviation of post-test (0,48).

CONCLUSION
The conclusion of this research that the mean score of the students in post-test ( 72) 1s 8,52 and the mean score of the students in pre-test (7; ) is 5. it means that the result of post-test is higher than the pre-test. This indicates that using picture is improving students' comprehension of descriptive text. It can be conclude that using pictures in teaching descriptive text is success.