THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPINNING WHEEL GAMES TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S WRITING SKILLS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Effectiveness, Writing skill, Spinning Wheel Games, Descriptive Text

Abstract

In this research, the researchers used different learning media that are rarely used by an educator, namely Spinning wheel Games learning media to solve problems that occur to students such as laziness, shyness, uninteresting lessons. Related to this, researchers use Spinning Wheel Games learning media to improve students' writing skills, especially on descriptive text. The purpose of this study was to improve students' writing ability through Spinning Wheel Games learning media. The researcher implemented this research on X grade students of Hasyim Asy'ari 1 Pucuk High School in the academic year 2023-2024. The normality test results in this study were 0.341> 0.05 and the t-test results showed that Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 < 0.05. Finally, the researcher concluded that class X at Hasyim Asy'ari 1 Pucuk High School showed an increase in English writing skills especially on descriptive text after using Spinning wheel Games learning media.