DEVELOPING VISITING LOCAL WISDOM BOX AS A TEACHING MEDIA ON WRITING RECOUNT TEXT FOR THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP N 35 MEDAN

The study was aimed to to develop learning media in Writing Recount Text for Grade VIII of Junior High School Students. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) design through six stages; gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product.. The subject of the study was Grade VIII of SMP N 35 Medan. The instruments of data collection were gathered by administring interview and distributing questionnaire. the study conducted interview to the English teacher and distributing questionnaire to 30 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results proved that the students need English learning media which can motivate the students to understand about writing recount text. the product had been validated by the experts namely English lecturer and English teacher. The product result was Visiting Local Wisdom Box which is modifying monopoly game based on local wisdom of North Sumatera. The result of experts’ validation showed that the media was an appropriate media to be used on writing recount text by getting the average percentage 95% categorized excellent.