The Use Of Realia To Improve Students’ Ability In Writing Descriptive Text

This research aims to find out whether there was a significant improvement in students writing skills after being taught using realia and to reveal the students' responses toward the use of realia in improving their descriptive writing skill. This study employed quantitative research design. Participant in this study was 46 students from grade VIIIa and VIIIb SMP N 1 Meukek, they were divided into experimental and control class. The instruments applied were tests and questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to 23 students of the experimental class to explore their perception toward the use of realia in improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Based on the statistical analysis, it could be seen from the result of mean score of post-test of VIIIa (experimental class) is 72.7 higher than pre-test 37.5, and the result of mean score of post-test VIIIb (control class) is 23.61 higher than pre-test 15.1 . If t-table is equal or greater than t-test calculation, so the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. The result of the test showed that there was a significant of using realia in improving students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Therefore, the use of realia in the learning process and in improving students’ writing skills is highly recommended to be implementes in the classroom.