This study is about teaching writing a descriptive text using miniatures, to the eighth grade students of SMP Nasional Pati. The purpose of this study is to know how far miniatures improve students’ competence in writing a descriptive text.
In conducting the study, the writer used non-equivalent groups design because in this research, random sampling was not used. The population of the study was the eighth grade students of SMP Nasional Pati in the Academic Year of 2011/2012 and in taking the sample she used a purposive sampling technique. In collecting the data, she used writing test as the instrument. The writer used two kinds of test: pre-test and post-test. Before the experiment was conducted, a pre-test was given to both groups. A post-test was given after the treatment was done. Then, the data from the two tests were scored and the writer used SPSS for Windows version 16.0 to analyze the result of the pre test and post test.
The result of T-test showed that the mean of the experimental group in pre-test was 63.06 and the mean of the control group was 65.06. After conducting the experiment, the writer gave the post test. The mean score of post-test of the control group was 67.33 and that of the experimental group was 78.00. The T-test calculation shows that the difference is significant.
Teaching a descriptive writing text using miniatures is a good way for the students and the English teacher should be creative in creating the new ideas to teach English writing.