Designing Writing Tasks Based on Realia to Improve the Seventh Grade Students’ Achievement in Writing a Descriptive Text

Abstract

Writing is one of the skills besides listening, speaking, and reading. Writing is an activity to express feeling, ideas, and thoughts, which are presented through written form. Based on the interview with one of the English teachers at SMPN 9 Jember, it found that most of the students failed to be a good writer. It caused the teacher only provide pictures from the textbook as the media in teaching writing. In order to solve this problem, the English teachers need to find creative media to make teaching writing more effective and fun. One of the media that can be used is realia.