THE EFFECT OF INQUIRY STARATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT GRADE X OF SMA NEGERI 1 KISARAN IN 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstrak

The identification of the problem in this research, namely : Students’ are difficult to organize the text, Students’ do not how to write well based on structure and grammar The objective of the research are : To describe how well the inquiry method contributes to writing descriptive text, To find out whether there is a in influence on the descriptive text writing achievement of high school students using the inquiry method This research will be conducted in a pre-experimental design using a quantitative approach. The researcher uses an experimental design because this study wants to measure students'' ability in writing descriptive text by using the inquiry method. The researcher will use one class as one group that will get the treatment and a group that will get a pre-test and post-test to find out the results of the treatment. The mean of student’s score in pre-test was 60,41 and after giving the material by conventional learning the mean of student’s score in post-test was being 60,60. Meanwhile, the mean of student’s score in pre-test was 65,83 and after giving the material by using Inquiry Strategy the score mean was being 65,98 in post-test. It means that Inquiry Strategy is effective to students'' writing ability in descriptive text. This shows that the use of inquiry strategy to improve students'' ability to write descriptive text has a significant impact. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the inquiry strategy is a useful instructional tool for creating descriptive texts.

Keywords:  writing. inquiry, descriptive text