THE INFLUENCE OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA ON FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS ' ABILITY TO WRITE POETRY IN SDN 24 MACANANG BONE REGENCY

Writing poetry is one of the language skills that is considered difficult by students in elementary school, especially in Elementary School 24 Macanang. For this reason, it is expected that teachers can creatively develop the learning media that can help students overcome their problems. One of them is the application of media that makes it easy for students to achieve the learning objectives. This study aims to: (1) describe the abilities of students in writing poetry before and after the application of audiovisual media, (2) determine the influence of applying audiovisual media to the ability to write poetry for fifth grade students at SD Negeri 24 Macanang, Bone Regency. This research is an experimental research using one group pretest-posttest design. The population of the research was 38 students in grade V of SD Negeri 24 Macanang, Bone Regency. Data were collected by test and documentation techniques. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The results of the study are; (1) audiovisual media can improve students' ability to write poetry based on the comparison of abilities before and after treatment, i . e from the beginning only 13. 2 percent were over the minimum criteria of learning mastery to 81.3 percent after the treatment. (2) there is a significant influence of audiovisual media on students' ability to write poetry. The contribution of audiovisual media to the ability to write poetry was 46.20 percent and the rest is influenced by other variables.