Abstract :
This research was intended to know the effectiveness of tourism picture in teaching
writing of descriptive text for the tenth graders of MA NWRempungin school year
2017-2018. The design of this research was a pre-experimental research with pre-test
and post-test design. The result of the dat was analized by using SPSS 22 for
windows programe.The sample was 26 students of the tenth graders (IPS-X). The
instrument was a subjective test in form of writing test. The result was analyzed by
using descriptive statistics and a paired sample t-Test to proved whether the
alternative hypothesis was accepted or not. The present researcher found that the
mean score of pre-test was 59.62 while the mean score of post-test was 75.15. In
paired-sample t-test there was a significant difference in the mean scores between
pre-test and the post-test, t (df=25) = 44.16 at p = .000, it means that the null hypothesis
was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted. It implies that Tourism Picture
was significantly effective in teaching writing of descriptive text for the tenth graders
of MA NW Rempungin school year 2017-2018.
Keywords: tourism picture, writing, descriptive