This research was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of
Experiential
Learning Strategy to
teach writing
descriptive
text at the eight
h grade students
of SMP Negeri 3
Belik
in academic year 2015/ 2016
. This research used quasi
experimental research. The participants of this research were the eight
h grade
student
s in SMP Negeri 3
Belik
. The two classes were chos
en as the
experimental (VIII A) class
consisting of thirty stu
dents, and control class (VIII
D) consisting of thirty students. The technique of data collection used test
,
namely
; pre
- test and post
- test. B
ased on the analysis of data,
it showed that the
mean score of pre
- test in experimental class was 50.4 and the mean score of
post
-test was 70.4
. Meanwhile, t
he mean score of control class was 51.2 and the
mean score of post
-test was 64
. Therefore, the
im
provement
was 20
from pre
-
test to post
-test in the exp
erimental class and the improvement
in the control
class was
12.
8 from pre
- test to post
- test. The
result of
t- test
was
3.994
, while
the t
- table with the significant level 0.05 in
d.f
58 was 1.6751.
Therefore
, t -
test
was higher than t
-
table or 3.994 ≤ 1.6751. It proves that
ELS
was effective
for
teaching writing
descriptive
text