Abstract:
This thesis was conducted to describe the effect of applying tourism brochure
towards students‟ writing ability in descriptive text at SMP Negeri Medan. The
method of research was the experimental research method. The population of the
study was the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Medan on Jl. Medan -
Belawan km 16 Medan for the students of eight grade of Junior High School
during the new academic 2015/2016, which consist of one class. They were VIII-1
class. The number of population were 132 students, the classes were divided into
one group , namely experimental group used in one-group pretest-posttest. Sample
was considered one class (VIII-1). The experimental group was taught by
applying tourism brochure. The instrument of research was writing test (pretestpostest).
The writing test is to describe what available in tourism brochure. The
data analysis was using T-test. The result showed that the students mean in
teaching descriptive text before taught applying tourism brochure is only 56.11.
while the students Mean in teaching descriptive text after the being taught
applying tourism brochure is 72.50. it was improved, with the t-test analysis that
used by researcher, the result of significant value is (0.222), with the significant
level 0.05. And the result of t observation 5.30 with t table is 2.042. By comparing
the “significant value” that the significant value is smaller than significant level
(significant value < significant level). It meant that Ha which states that there is
significant effect of using think aloud strategy on student‟s writing abilityin
descriptive text is accepted. Whereas Ho states that there is no significant effect
of applying tourism brochure on student‟s writing ability in descriptive text is
rejected. In other word, it can be concluded that applying tourism brochure is
effective to teach English lesson especially for descriptive text at junior high
school of SMP Negeri 5 Medan
