This study was aimed to know the effeciveness of using personal
photograph in teaching writing descriptive texts toward the second grade students
of SMP N 9 Banjar in academic year 2014/2015. This research was conducted
using experimental design. The participants of this research were second grade
students of SMP N 9 Banjar. There were 2 classes, class A for the experimental
class B for the control class. Test was used in collecting the data of this research,
and they were pre-test and post-test. After the data were collected, data were
analyzed using t-test. Based on the computation, t-test result was 3.5647, and the
t-table was 1.6715. It means that t-test result was higher than t-table
(3.5647>1.6715). There were achievement got by students to increase the
students„ skill in writing descriptive text. It seemed from the average score of the
test in the experimental class which indicated enhancement around 21.87 while
the control class 12.8. In conclusion, personal photograph was effective for
teaching writing descriptive text at second grade students of SMP N 9 Banjar in
academic year 2014/2015.