Writing Descriptive Text Using Mime Media To The Seventh Grade Students (A Pre-Experimental Study to the Students of MTs Al-Falah Mempawah in Academic Year 2021/2022)

Abstract

This study intended to discover the effect of Mime Media on the students’ writing achievement in descriptive text. This research is a pre-experimental study. The population of this research was the seventh grade students consisted of 46 students. By using purposive sampling technique, the subject of research of this study was VII A class that consisted of 25 students. The data on this study was gathered through a written test in form of essay. The result of the data indicates that the students’ mean score of post-test was 79.36; it was greater than the mean score of pre-test which was 66.84. Based on the data analysis, t-test value was higher than the t-test table value (11.050>1.711) at the level of significance 0.02 with degree of freedom (df) = 24. It means that there was a significant difference. Therefore H₀ was rejected, and H_a was accepted. It can be concluded that the use of mime media in process learning teaching can improve the students’ in descriptive text and the writing skills of the seventh grade students of MTs Al-Falah Mempawah.