THE USE OF BRAINSTORMING TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS‟ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: A CASE OF THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 1 SAYUNG DEMAK IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR

Abdul, Muhammad Khakim, 14420159. 2021. The Use of Brainstorming Technique
to Improve the Student Writing Ability in Writing Descriptive Tex: : A Case of Eight
Grade Students of SMP N 1 Sayung in Academic Year 2018/2019..Final Project,
English Education Department, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University
of PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Arso Setyaji, S.Pd., M.Hum., Advisor II: Rr, Festi
Himatu Karima, S.S., M.Hum.
The objectives of the final project were purpose 1) to find out the students‟ ability in
writing descriptive text before being taught using brainstorming technique. 2) to find
out the students‟ ability in writing descriptive text after being taught using
brainstorming technique. 3) to find out the significant difference of students‟ ability
in writing descriptive text after and before being taught using brainstorming
technique. The researcher did this research by quantitative data. The researcher had
pre-experimental research. The researcher got the finding and discussion to know the
value of the data. The researcher did pre test and post test of the class. The mean
score of students‟ pre-test 54.75 in the range of bellow 60 that were included to fail.
The mean score of students‟ post-test 82.78 in the range of 80-89 which is included
very good category. The result of t-test was 14.599 and t-table of df 30 is 2,045. If t-
test > t-table means that there was a significant difference of the students‟ writing
ability in descriptive text before and after being taught using Brainstorming
technique. The conclusion that this study was effective. The researcher suggested to
the English teachers that they should use an interesting method or media in teaching
learning process in order to make the students interested and not bored in learning
English
Key words: Brainstorming game, writing ability, teaching English