The Effect of Project Based Learning on Descriptive Text Writing by Eighth Grade Students at SMP Negeri 4 Kendari

Abstrak

This study aimed to discover the effect of using Project based learning on students writing descriptive text ability at second grade students at SMPN 4 Kendari. This research applied quantitative method with type of pre-experimental method. There were 30 students of second grade students from SMPN 4 Kendari who were selected to become the subject for this research. The instrument of this study was writing test. The data analysis for this study employed SPSS 24 programs to embrace statistic analysis. The data analysis appeared a significant 2-tailed value is .000 which was less than 0.05. Due to that, the working hypothesis (H1) was accepted which means null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. In conclusion, there is a significant Effect of Project Based Learning on Students Writing Descriptive Text Ability by Eight Grade Students at SMPN 4 Kendari.

Kata kunci

• Writing
• descriptive text
• project-based learning