The aim of the research was to find out the effectiveness of REACT
strategy for teaching writing descriptive text. The research used experimental
method. The population of this research was all of the students on seventh grade
students of SMPN 2 Maos. The population was 277 students. Purposive sampling
was used to take the sample of the research. There were two classes as the
research participants, namely class VII Eas experimental group consisted of 33
students and VII F as control group consisted of 34 students. The research was
carried out from April 4th to May 14th2014. There was treatment in the
experimental group that was taught by using REACT strategy and there was no
treatment in the control group. Pre-test was conducted to know the basic
competence of the participant in writing skill. The post-test was conducted after
the treatment. After the data had been analyzed, the result of t-test calculation was
5. 184 while the t-table value at the level of significance α = 0, 05 for degree of
freedom (df) = 65 was 1.669. It means that t-test was higher than t-table (5. 184>
1.669). Thus, the hypothesis was accepted or it means that REACT strategy was
effective for teaching writing descriptive text.