This research was aimed at knowing whether environmental media could improve
students‟ competence in writing descriptive text. This research was conducted at SMP
Negeri 8 Purwokerto in academic year 2013/2014. The method of this research was a
classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research was the students of VIIE
of SMP Negeri 8 Purwokerto which consisted of 34 students. The treatment was carried
out in two cycles of four actions, from April 24th 2014 to May 12th 2014. Every cycle
consisted of planning, acting, observing, reflecting and evaluating. In collecting data the
writer used test and observation as the quantitative data. To support the quantitative data
questionnaire was conducted to evaluate the teaching learning process as the qualitative
data. The result of this research could be seen from the result of students‟ score who
reached KKM (80) in pre-test and action two of cycle two. The number of students‟
writing score who reached KKM in pre-test showed 17.64% became 54% in action two
of cycle one (post-test 1). It became 90.62% in action two of cycle two (post-test 2). It
reached the criteria of action success which was at least 85% of the number students
who reached KKM (80). Then it was supported by observation and questionnaire result.
The observation result improved 30.28% from cycle one to cycle two. The
questionnaire result showed that almost all of students (91.01%) felt more enjoyed, easy
and helped being able to write descriptive text using environmental media. Based on
the result of the research, it could be concluded that environmental media could improve
students‟ competence in writing descriptive text.