Improving Students’ Writing Skill in Descriptive Text by Using Personal Photograph

Abstract

This classroom action research was intended to improve the students’ writing achievement in descriptive text at SMP Islam An-Nur Rambipuji in the 2020/2021 academic year. Based on the result of the prelimnary study, it was found that the students still got difficulties in learning English especially in writing skills. There were only 9 students (21% of the students) getting score 75 which was the minimum completeness criteria or KKM, while 33 students (79% of the students) getting the writing score less than 75. The average of the writing score in that class was only 69.08. To overcome this problem, the researcher proposed personal photograph to as the instructional media in teaching writing. The classroom action research was applied as the research design. The population of this research was the eighth grade students at SMP Islam An-Nur in specification class VIII-C. This class was chosen to be the participant because most of the students in this class had problem in writing skill. Besides, this class had the lowest writing score among all the eighth grade classes. There data collection methods in this research were writing test, interview and documentation.