THE INFLUENCE OF USING PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL (PWIM) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP AL HUDA JATIAGUNG LAMPUNG SELATAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

The students writing skill of SMP Al-Huda Jatiagung was still low especially in writing descriptive text. Some strategies were needed by teacher to overcome that problem. One of strategies was Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) Strategy. The objective of this research was to know whether the use of Picture Word Inductive Model strategy influence for teaching writing of descriptive text at the eighth grade of SMP Al-Huda Jatiagung in the academic year of 2017/2018 or not. Quasi experimental design was used in this research. The population was eighth grade of SMP Al-Huda Jatiagung. The total sample in this research was 65 students that were taken from two classes, VIII A and VIII B, by using Cluster Random Sampling. In collecting the data, the instrument was descriptive writing test. After giving the post-test, the data was analyzed by using normality and homogeneity test. After testing the hypothesis, the result was that there was a significant influence of using picture word inductive model strategy toward students’ descriptive text writing ability at the eighth grade of the second semester at SMP Al-Huda Jatiagung Lampung Selatan. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig.Pvalue= 0.000 and α= 0.05. It means Ha was accepted because Sig.Pvalue< α= 0.000