@thesis{thesis, author={Kurniawati -}, title ={USING MATCHING GAMES AS MEDIA IN TEACHING STUDENTS WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: A CASE OF THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 16 SEMARANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020}, year={2020}, url={http://eprints3.upgris.ac.id/id/eprint/8284/}, abstract={Kurniawati. 2019. ? Using Matching Games as Media in Teaching Students Writing Skill of Descriptive Text: A Case of the Tenth Grade of SMA N 16 Semarang in Academic Year 2019/2020?. Final project, Department of English Education, Faculty of Language and Art Education University of PGRI Semarang. The first advisor: Dr. Wiyaka, M.Pd And the second advisor: Laily Nur Affini, S.Pd., M.Hum. Keywords: Writing, Descriptive text, Matching games This final paper is attempted to examine ? Using Matching Games as Media in Teaching Students Writing Skill of Descriptive Text: A Case of the Tenth Grade of SMA N 16 Semarang in Academic Year 2019/2020?. The objectives of the study were 1) To describe the implementation of matching game as media to teaching writing skill in descriptive text, 2) To find out whether there is significant difference between of students? writing ability of descriptive text. 3) To know the strength and weakness of using matching game as media to teaching writing skill in descriptive text. The researcher used a quasi-experimental research with two groups. To obtain the data, the researcher carried out some steps. They were tests, treatment, and questionnaire sheet. The population of the study was the tenth grade of SMA N 16 Semarang in Academic year 2019/2020. The result of the analysis shows that there is significant difference between the students taught without using Matching Game as media and those taught using Matching Game as media in writing descriptive text. It is shown by the mean score of the experimental group is higher than the mean score of the control group (82.06 > 47.94). in the other hand, based on t-table where 10.610 > 2.030 (on a level significance 5% df = 35). Thus, the hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The result of questionnaire sheet shows that the strengths of Matching Game is train the mind to be focussed and careful, easy to understand by the students, makes learning descriptive text easier, and the weakness is spend a lot of time, and if it?s done by several groups, it will be less attractive. From the result of this study, it can be stated that using Matching Game as media had good responses from the students and it can improve the students writing ability in descriptive text. Therefore, teachers could apply Matching Game as media in teaching writing descriptive text.} }