students‟ activities, giving the instruction how to do those activities, putting them into pairs or groups, and closing the activities. When deciding the students‟
activity, the teachers should find an appropriate strategy to enliven the teaching and learning process.
Using strategy is considered as one of the effective ways to improve students‟ skill in writing descriptive text. By applying Write-around as a learning
strategy in a writing activity, perhaps students not only can learn how to write in English, but also cooperate and communicate with others.Based on the problems
above, I intend to know the use of Write-around strategy to improve the students‟
writing skill of the eighth grade of SMP N 39 Semarang.
1.2. Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The reasons for choosing the topic are as follows : 1
Writing is one of the four skill in English that has to be mastered by students in Junior High School. Most students get difficulties in writing a
text or even a sentence. In my opinion, teacher should encourage them to keep practicing by challenging and motivating them in the teaching
learning process. 2
Descriptive text is one of the materials of the eight grade in Junior High School. Students face difficulties in writing descriptive text. The basic
problem is create a good descriptive text. So, the teachers need to find more appropriate strategy to facilitate the students to improve their writing
skill of descriptive text so that the students have more ideas about what will they write later to make a good paragraph.
3 To introduce the use of Write-around in teaching writing descriptive text.
It can help students to get more ideas and stimulate the students to write a good descriptive text. Write-around is interesting strategy. There will be a
group in learning process that can make students more active. Students will share their ideas in written form and discuss with their group. By
discussing their ideas, students can produce a text especially in writing of descriptive text.
1.3. Research Questions The problems in this study are :
1 How is Write-around strategy used in the teaching of writing descriptive
text of the eight grade of Junior High School? 2
How can Write-around improve the students‟ writing of descriptive text?
1.4. Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study as follows : 1
To find out how Write-around is used to teach the students‟ writing of descriptive text.
2 To find out to what extent that Write-around strategy improve the
students‟ writing of descriptive text.
1.5. Significances of Study
