THE USE OF DISCOVERY LEARNING IN BUILDING STUDENT’S MOTIVATION IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT A CASE OF 8 GRADE STUDENT OF SMP N 1 JUWANA

The title of this final project is “The Use of Discovery Learning in
Building Student’s Motivation in Writing Descriptive Text A Case of 8 Grade
Students at SMP N 1 JUWANA”. This objectives of the study are :1) To elaborate
the implementation of discovery learning in building students motivation in
writing descriptive text in the classroom, 2) To find out the obstacles of using
discovery learning should by the English teacher. The data analysis method used
qualitative analysis, namely the data obtained were analyzed and presented in the
form of spoken and written words based on the facts that existed during the
research. The subjects used were English teachers and 32 students from class
VIIIB. The instruments used for data collection are observation and interviews.
The results of this study are as follows: in the learning process, the teacher
uses discovery learning teaching strategies. There are five stages in the use of the
strategy, namely, Stimulation, Problem Statement, Data Collection, Data
Processing, Verification, and Generalization. The teacher explains step by step so
that students can understand, With the use of suitable teaching strategies, it will
make the learning process easier, especially for teachers. Especially writing
descriptive text. The use of discovery learning models in learning makes it easier
for teachers to convey material that will be accepted by students easi