THE USE OF PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract The aim of this research was to find out the effectiveness of Picture Word Inductive Model in teaching writing descriptive text to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Pontianak in academic year 2016/2017. The researcher used pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design. The research population is 190 students. The sample of this research was class VIIIA that consisted of 32 students which was chosen by using cluster random sampling. The tool of data collecting was writing test. The research findings showed that the mean score of the pre-test was 59.72 and the mean score of post-test was 78.72. Moreover, the effect size result was 2.30.This result was more than 0.80 (ES > 0.8) which categorized as high effect size. It proved that teaching writing descriptive text using Picture Word Inductive Model gives a strong significant effect to improve students’ writing achievement.Keywords : Descriptive Text, Teaching Writing, Picture Word Inductive Model