Masdari 2005:5 states that ―learning strategies are techniques, approaches, or
deliberate the learning and recall of both linguistic and content information‖.
In this case, the writer would give study tour strategy to increase the students‘ writing skill in descriptive text. In teaching learning process, there are a
lot of strategies which are used by teachers, but the writer uses study tour method to increase the
students‘ learning result in writing. Through this method, students will work outside of the class to observe situation around them, so they can feel
free in writing. If it is possible, the writer would like to invite students to tour to interest places.
From the above explanation, the writer will discuss about ―The effectiveness
of using study tour method to increase students‘ skill in writing descriptive text‖ which is conducted at the second grade students of SMP Takhassus Al-
Qur‘an Wonosobo.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
In language, writing is an activity to express the idea or to produce the language itself. It takes time to think and discuss about the subject. In education, students
need more practices to write and apply the stages of the writing process. Knowing the complex process of writing, the teachers should use the proper teaching
technique to motivate the students to learn and pay attention to the material. One of the teaching techniques that can be used is study tour.
Teaching medium is one of the components involved in teaching learning process. The teacher makes the use of teaching media to support the material in
classroom. One of the f unctions of teaching media is to engage the students‘
motivation. The writer only focuses on the use of study tour method as a strategy to
teach writing in her study. The writer uses study tour method to improve the students‘ descriptive writing. The reasons for choosing the topic are:
1 The writer would like to make students interested in learning English,
especially interested in writing descriptive text. 2
Writing is considered as a difficult language skill for junior high school students.
3 The study tour method can help students associate what they see with their
real life experience, so it can help teachers to get optimal results in teaching writing.
4 The writer can also guide students to create words and to arrange words in
their minds into good paragraphs that they get from their real experience. 5
Study tour is a strategy which is in learning the writer invites students to go out from class and to observe objects around them. It can motivate students
how to write descriptive text because they can feel free to write and get fresh idea when they do writing activity outside of the class.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
In order to make a systematic approach of the study, the writer limits the problem as the following: ―How effective is study tour method used to increase students‘
skill in writing descriptive? ‖
1.4 Objective of the Study
