The Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the Academic Year 2012/2013 Taught By Using Real Objects

One purpose of learning English is that the student can master English well in elementary until senior high school, especially to understand the types of texts or genres. Genre text, in Indonesia has been taught since Junior High School. In the syllabus of the eighth grade students of junior high school, there is descriptive text as the material. In the fact, the writer found many eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 still have less understanding and capability in writing descriptive text. It is because their teacher did not use an interesting media in their teaching learning process. Therefore, the writer uses real objects as the media to help the students’ ability in writing descriptive text, so the students did not face difficulties in writing descriptive text. The objective of the research is to find out whether or not there is a significant difference between the writing ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Real Objects. The design of this research is pre-experimental research. The population of this research is all of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013. The writer takes one class as the sample by using cluster random sampling. The writer got VIII F, consist of 34 students. The research instrument used by the writer is written test. The writing ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before being taught by using real objects is sufficient. The result of the test shows that the mean is 63.9 and standard deviation is 11.1. Meanwhile, the writing ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 after being taught by using real objects is good. It showed from the result of the test that mean is 75.6 and standard deviation is 9.8. It is easy to understand from the mean of pre-test and post-test that there is significant different. The mean of post-test is higher than the mean score of pre-test. But, we have to examine the result of the scores by using t-test and t-table. Then, the result is t-test (to = 12.5 > t-table = 2.04). So, there is a significant difference between the writing ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using real objects. Based on the result above, this proves that real objects as media can help the writing ability in descriptive text of the eighth grade students of SMP 4 Bae Kudus in the academic year 2012/2013. So, the English teacher hopefully uses it as one of teaching media in teaching English especially in writing descriptive text