The Effectiveness of Using Inquiry Learning Method to Teach Writing Desciptive Text to the First Year Students of MTsN Tunggangri Kalidawir

Keywords : effectiveness, inquiry learning method, descriptive text. One of methods used in teaching writing is Inquiry Learning Method. Inquiry Learning Method is one of Contextual Teaching and Learning methods. In Inquiry, the students learn how to make writing descriptive text well and correctly by self learning. This mean that the students through some steps those are formulate the problem, collect the data by observation, analyze and present the result in the writing form or report etc, and communicate the result of work for the readers, classmates, or other audiences. The formulation of the research problems are : 1) How is students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method? 2)How is students’ achievement in writing descriptive text after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method? 3) Is there any significant effectiveness of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method ? The purpose of this research are : 1) to investigate the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method, 2) to investigate the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method, 3) to investigate wheter is any significant effectiveness of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method. Research Method : 1) the research design in this study was pre experimental design with one group pre and post test. 2) the population of this study was all first year students at MTsN Tunggangri which the total of VII class are 297 students, 3) the sample was taken from one class from the first students of MTsN Tunggangri, in C class, there are 33 students consist of 12 boys an 21 girls, 4) the research instrument was test, 5) the data analysis uses t test(statistic application SPSS 16.00.) The conclusions of this study are : 1) students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method shows is there are 33 students who get enough criteria. It means that 100 % students have enough achievement in writing descriptive text. 2) students’ achievement in writing descriptive text after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method is there are 23 students have enough criteria, 7 students have good criteria, 3 students have very good criteria and 1 student has excellent criteria. It means that there are decreasing in total students who have enough criteria, increasing for the total students who have good, very good, and excellent criteria. Mean pre test 59,85 and mean post test69,52. This mean that there is the significant effectiveness of students’ achievement in writing descriptive text before and after being taught by using Inquiry Learning Method . And the t test value is -6,953, it is greater than t table 2,042 so it means that there are significant effectiveness of using Inquiry Learning Method in writing descriptive text for the first year students in C class at MTsN Tunggangri Kalidawir