THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MYSTERY BOX MEDIA ON STUDENT WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Writing skill, Mystery Box, Descriptive Text

Abstract

This research  tried to implement the use of mystry Box media in learning to write descriptive text, the purpose of the research was to indentify the effect of Mystery Box media in learning to write descriptive text.. The type of research used is pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. With a total of 21 students.  Observation, test, questionnaire and documentation are the research instruments. Data analysis used normality test and hypothesis test. The results showed that there was an effect of using Mystery Box media in learning to write descriptive texts on students. The average value of pretest results before the application of Mystery Box media was 48.33 while after the application of Mystery Box media, the posttest value reached 78.29. Hypothesis calculation using t-test, namely paired sample T test and obtained at a significant level of 0.05 shows that the probability value (significance) is 0.000. Because the significance value of 0.011 < α = 0.05, Ho is rejected. This proves that the use of mystery box media has an effect in learning to write descriptive text for students.