IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH FIELD TRIP TECHNIQUE TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 BUNGKU TENGAH

The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of field trip technique in improving the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The writer applied a quasi-experimental research design which involved experimental group and control group. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Bungku Tengah and the sample was XA and XC consisting of 25 students for each class. The researcher applied purposive sampling technique. The research instrument used to collect the data was test. The pretest was administered to measure the students’ ability in writing descriptive text before the treatment and the posttest was administered to measure the students’ ability after the treatment. The data gathered from the test was analyzed statistically. The result of data analysis shows that the hypothesis of the research was accepted by regarding to analysis that the tcounted (9.331) was greater than the ttable (2.011). The degree of freedom (df) of the table is Nx + Ny – 2 = 25+ 25 – 2 = 48 with the level of significance at 0.05. It means that field trip technique can improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Keyterms: Improving; Writing Ability; Descriptive Text; Field Trip Technique