Last modified: 2023-08-22
Abstract
Writing is necessary for academic purposes that through writing, the students can convey the thoughts and feelings in order to understand by the reader. One of media that use in teaching writing descriptive text is SpinningWheel Game. The aim of study is find out the significant of the students’ writing descriptive text by using Spinning Wheel Game in experiment class and control class. The study was conducted for 3 months by using quasi-experimental. The samples were 57 students. The data was students’ score of test. The instrument was analyzed by SPSS 22 statistics program. The finding showed that there was a significant difference in students’ score in experimental class that use spinning wheel game in writing descriptive text and control class that it did not use spinning wheel game. The value of sign (2-tailed) is 0,000 and the value of the ttest (4,919) is greater than the t-table (2,004) at a significance level of 0,25 with degree of freedom (df) = 57. It means that there was a significant difference between the student score in the post- test experiment class and the control class so that the author could come to the conclusion that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. It means that Spinning Wheel Game can be implemented to improve the students’ writing descriptive text.
Keywords: Writing English; Descriptive Text; Spinning Wheel Game