THE EFFECT OF PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL (PWIM) ON STUDENTS` ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMP NEGERI 4 BINJAI

This study aims to discover the effect of Picture Word Inductive Model on students achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the eight (VIII) grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Binjai with seven parallel classes. The samples of the research were two classes divided into two groups, experimental and control group which were chosen by using random sampling technique. Sixty six students were taken as the samples. The experimental group was taught by using Picture Word Inductive Model, while the control group was taught by using Lecturing Model. The instrument for collecting the data was a writing test. Then, after analyzing the data, it was found that the value of tobserved was 3.79 with the degree of freedom (df) = 64 at the level of significance (α 0.05) = 2.00. It means that tobserved is higher than ttable (3.79 > 2.00). The result of this study shows that Picture Word Inductive Model gives a significant effect on students achievement in writing descriptive text. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted