The Use of Environmental Media to Improve Students Writing Skills in Descriptive Texts (An Experimental Research at Second Grade Student of SMKN 1 Trumon Timur)

This research is entitled “The Use of Environmental Media to Improve Students Writing Skills in Descriptive Texts (An Experimental Research at Second Grade Student of SMKN 1 Trumon Timur)”. It was aimed at finding out to know to what extend the use of environmental media improves student’s skill in writing descriptive text and to know how are students’ response toward the use of environmental media to improve their ability in writing descriptive text. To achieve the goals of this study, the researcher did pre-experimental research using environmental media.The study was carried out in one experimental class. The data was gathered through tests which were delivered as pre-test and post-test. Questionnaire was used as instrument to get data on students’ responses in this research. The result of this study indicates that environmental media is effective to use in writing descriptive text. Students score of the post-test was (86, 03) higher than that of pre-test (36, 56). Student’s responses showed that the 92.15% of 30 students agreed to use environmental media in teaching learning and 7.84% of them disagreed to use environment as media in teaching learning process. These shows that students are interested in learning by using environment as media and it was easy for them to understand the material they are learning. This scores proves that there are significant different before and after applying the environment as learning media in teaching. Therefore, teaching by using environmental media was effective in improving student’s skill in writing descriptive texts at SMKN 1 Trumon Timur.