Improving The Students’ Ability In Writing Descriptive Text By Using Index Card Match Strategy For The Tenth Grader Of Senior High School Students Of Sma Muhammadiyah Kudus In Academic Year Of 2016/2017 (Classroom Action Research)

Writing is an important thing even though it is difficult skill to develop, it is very important to be taught. Because in writing, the learners must master the writing component and pay attention to the rule of language. Unfortunately, some learners think that writing skill is only making a written form without obeying the rule of writing itself. Therefore, the writer choose with the title improving the students writing ability of descriptive text by using Index Card Match Strategy for the tenth grader exactly X-C of senior high school students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in the academic year 2016/2017. The objective of this research is to find out whether Index Card Match Strategy can improve students in writing descriptive text of the tenth grader of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in the academic year 2016/2017 and to describe the implementation of Index card Match Strategy in improve the students writing ability of descriptive text of the tenth grader of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in the academic year 2016/2017. This research belongs to classroom action research (CAR). This research is conducted in SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus, while the subject is the students of class X-C of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus that consist of 29 students. This research is done in 2 cycles. To know the activities and to know the level of the students in this research I used 2 instruments that are observation sheet was to know the students and teacher activities in the classroom and achievement test was to know the level of the students. The result of the research showed that there were some improvements in students’ writing descriptive text. In cycle 1 the mean of the writing skill of the tenth exactly X-C grade students SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in the academic year 2016/2017 after using writing ability in Index Card Match Strategy is 66.7. It is Low achievement. And in the cycle 2 the average score were 78.8. It is categorized as satisfactoryachievement. From the facts above, it is expected that English teacher to apply writing ability by using Index card Match Strategy in teaching and learning process to solve the students’ problem. So the teacher can apply this strategy as the strategy of teaching in order to make the teaching and learning process alive. Can help improving the writing ability of students of tenth grader of SMA Muhammadiyah Kudus in the academic year 2016/2017