Abstract:
English is an International language to be learned. It is used to
communicate among countries in the world. English is introduced to the students
in Indonesia from Elementary School to the college students. The students,
especially students in senior high school level must deal with many kinds of text.
One kind of text that must be learned by the students is descriptive text.
Meanwhile, the text should be learned through the interesting media. One kind of
the effective media is by using tourism video.
This research is pre-experimental research. The purpose of this study is to
know whether using tourism video is effective or not to improve students writing
skill of descriptive text at the tenth grade students of MAN Purworejo in the
academic year of 2013/2014. The researcher took 31 students of X-2 as the
sample. The researcher uses purposive sampling technique. The researcher gave
pre-test and post test to get the data.
The mean score of post test is higher than the mean score of pre-test (70.8
> 57.55). In addition, the result of t-value is 6.93. Then, the researcher consulted
the critical value on the t-table using 5% (0.05) significant level. The value of ttable
is 2.042. It means that t-value is higher than t-table (6.93 > 2.042). Based on
the result findings, the researcher concluded that the use of tourism video is
effective to improve students writing skill of descriptive text at the tenth grade
students of MAN Purworejo in the academic year of 2013/2014.
