This final project is an experimental research that was aimed at knowing
the effectiveness of experiential learning strategy to teach writing descriptive text.
The research participant of the study were the eight grade students of SMP Negeri
2 Kalibagor in the Academic Year of 2012/2013. The results of this research
showed that the average scores of pre-test from the two groups were nearly the
same. The mean of the pre-test for the experimental group was 51.75 and 52.5 for
the control group. After the experimental and control groups were given different
treatments, the score in the post-test of the two groups increased, in which the
mean of the experimental group who was taught by Experiential Learning
Strategy was 78.75 and for the control group was 70.375. It means that the results
of the experimental group were higher than those of the control group. Therefore,
Experiential Learning Strategy is effective to increase the students„ skill in writing
descriptive text. Based on the results, the improvement of the experimental group
was 27 and 17.875 for the control group. The result of applying t-test based on the
difference of two means reveals that obtained value (5.958) is higher than t-table
value for