Improving Student’s Ability in Writing Descriptive Text by Applying Contextual Teaching Learning to the Seventh Grade Student at SMP Negeri 2 Langsa

Writing descriptive is a text which describes the characteristic of a person, place, or things. In educational setting in Indonesia, the students of junior high school have studied writing skill particularly. The junior high school students have studied how to describe something to be a text. Based on the interview to the English teacher in SMPN 2 Langsa, the writer found that most of students cannot write descriptive text well. The students did not know how to start and describe something, they are difficult to find out an idea to describe it. They cannot know how to explain about the characteristic of place, thing and animal. They cannot describe something in the text accurately. Based on the problem, the writer tries to do a research to investigate the improvement of the students’ ability in writing descriptive text in using Contextual Teaching and Learning at SMPN 2 Langsa. The research belongs to experimental research applied to class VII8 as experimental class and class VII6 as the controlled class. The research was done by conducting pretest, treatment and posttest on 05th until 19th January 2015. Based on the result of the research, the writer found that Contextual Teaching and Learning approach improves students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The development can be seen from the writing test result between experimental and controlled class.