ABSTRACT

Firman Nurma S. 2017. IMPROVING STUDENTS WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE

TEXT TRHOUGH SCRAMBLED SENTENCES AT EIGHT GRADE OF MTs
MAARIF CIKEDUNG, MAJALENGKAThe Influence of Using Flash Card on
The Students Speaking Skill In Performing Adjacency Pairs At The Seventh
Graders At MTs Nurul Ulum Ciparay. Final Project.English Department.S1
Degree of English Education. Advisors: I. Dr. Septi Gumiandari, M.Ag. II.
Farouk Imam Arrasyid, M.Pd.I,M.Pd.

This final project was a study to examine the influence of using scrambled sentences as the
media in teaching descriptive text. The objective of this study was to find the influence of
scrambled sentences to improve students writing skill in descriptive text and the
implementation of scrambled sentences in teaching writing descriptive text.
The population of the study was eigth grader of MTs Maarif Cikedung. The number of
the population was 60 students divided into four classes. The researcher used 8C as sample in
this research. The researcher used purposive sample method in choosing the sample.
The research design which the researcher used was an experimental study with Pre-test
and Post-test. The research instruments used were , tests and observation. At last, the result of
the test was analyzed using t-test formula.
The result of the data analysis of the reflection scores for the cycle I and cycle II figured
out the increasing mean figures of pre test 33.75, Post Test I 34,25, and Post Test II 41.67 for
cycle I and cycle II respectively. There was a differences mean figure of Pre Test 59, Post
Test I 75, Post Test II 76 for Cycle II
Based on the result above, scrambled sentences was more effective for teaching writing,
especially to write decriptive text for eight graders of Junior High School Students and
scrambled sentences positively contributed to the improvement of the studentsability in
writing. Then, the researcher suggest the teacher to use scrambled sentences as the media in
teaching writing and to improve studentsmotivation to write English.

Keywords: scrambled sentences, writing skill, descriptive text