The Perceived Effectiveness of Outdoor Learning Activities To Improve Writing Descriptive Text For Junior High School

This research aimed to find out the perceived effectiveness of the Outdoor Learning Strategy to improve students’ writing descriptive text that focused on content and organization at nine grade students of SMP Bahrul Ulum Islamic School (BULICS) Meulaboh. The researcher applied non-experimental and collected the data by giving the test. The sample of the research was class IX SMP Bahrul Ulum Islamic School (BULICS) Meulaboh. The total sample was 20 students consist of 10 males and 10 females. The sample was taken by used probability sampling technique.The research findings showed that Outdoor Learning Strategy is also effective to improve the students’ writing descriptive text in terms of Content and Organization. Outdoor Learning Strategy gives the effectiveness for students’ writing descriptive text in Terms of content, which shown by the mean score of content becomes 85,50. Besides that, outdoor learning strategy is also effective to improve the students’ writing descriptive text in Terms of organization, which shown by the mean score of 81,75. In other word, the Outdoor Learning Strategy was effective to use in writing descriptive text particularly in making good content and organization.