Improving Students’ Writing Skill In Descriptive Text through Picture Word Inductive Model

Abstract

This article is written based on the research conducted by the writers. This research was to find out (1) How to improve students’ writing skill in descriptive text through picture word inductive model (PWIM). The investigation of population of this research was the seventh grade students of SMPT Ibnu Muay Bekasi in the academic year 2019/2020. The sample of the study was class 7.1 consisting of 20 students. The writers used classroom action research as the method in conducting this research. There are three cycles has 4 steps, they are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The obtained data was from Interview, observation and writing test. The result showed that there was a significant improvement on students’ descriptive writing achievement taught using Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM). The students could achieve the KKM. The KKM was 75. It could be seen from the data percentages from cycle 1 to cycle 3, 45% (cycle 1) to 70% (cycle 2) and 90% (cycle 3).