This research was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Wholesome
Listing Game for teaching writing descriptive text at the eight grade students of
SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Purwokerto in academic year 2014/ 2015. This research
used quasi experimental research. The participants of this research were the eight
grade students in SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Purwokerto. The two classes were
chosen as the experimental (VIII C)which consisting of thirty students, and
control class (VIII D) which consisting of thirty students
. The technique of data
collection used test namely pre
-
test and post
-
test. The result of assessment
showed that the mean score of pre
-
test in experimental class was 54.16 and the
mean score of post
-
test was 70.37. Meanwhile, the mean score of control c
lass
was 51.15 and the mean score of post
-
test was 62.25. There was an improvement
from pre
-
test to post
-
test as many as 16.2 in the experimental class. The
progression in the control class was 11.1 from pre
-
test to post
-
test. The data was
calculated by
statistical formula. The t
-
test result was 3. 076 while the t
-
table
with the significant level 0.05 in
d.f
58 was 1.6751. Based on the data analysis, t
-
test was higher than t
-
table or 3.076 ≤ 1.6751, so that the hypothesis was
accepted. It proves that
Wholesome Listing Game
gave positive effect for
teaching writing descriptive text.