The Effectiveness of Webquest Media in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text

This research is focus on teaching writing descriptive text that used Webquest as a teaching media. The aim of conducting this research is to know whether webquest is effective to teach writing descriptive text to the first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ambawang in the academic year of 2014/2015. The researcher conducted a pre experimental study on teaching writing descriptive text using webquest media. The measurement technique was used specifically to measure the students' achievement and it was done through writing test. Based on data analysis, it was found that the effect size of this research is 2.44. Before the treatment the mean score of pre-test was 49 which categorizes as poor. After they received the treatment the mean score of the post test increased to 72.07 which categorize as average to good. The result the students post-test is better than pre-test. It means that there is an improvement in students' achievement