Teaching Descriptive Text Through Brainstorming by Using Zoom; A Field Research SMP Negeri 264 Cengkareng

• Nafrida Nafisatul Aisah
• 2021

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COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 until now requires learning and teaching activities to change from face-to-face to online learning. Finding difficulties, advantages, and learning outcomes of writing descriptive text with the brainstorming method using the zoom application is the purpose of this research. The subjects of this study were students of class VIII C 264 State Junior High School. The objective of this study was learning to write descriptive texts using the brainstorming method. Data collection is an observation method and a test method. The collected data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis methods. The results showed that the challenges in writing English descriptive text are limited vocabulary, mastery of grammar, and courage to write. In addition the brainstorming techniques are useful for improving students' writing skills because brainstorming techniques help students become more active and creative, students also do not waste time in the writing process so that students' writing skills improve significantly. This can be evidenced by the increase in student scores in writing descriptive texts through brainstorming techniques by zoom. Thus, it can be said that brainstorming techniques can be used in writing descriptive texts in 8th-grade students of SMP Negeri 264 Cengkareng.COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 until now requires learning and teaching activities to change from face-to-face to online learning. Finding difficulties, advantages, and learning outcomes of writing descriptive text with the brainstorming method using the zoom application is the purpose of this research. The subjects of this study were students of class VIII C 264 State Junior High School. The objective of this study was learning to write descriptive texts using the brainstorming method. Data collection is an observation method and a test method. The collected data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis methods. The results showed that the challenges in writing English descriptive text are limited vocabulary, mastery of grammar, and courage to write. In addition the brainstorming techniques are useful for improving students' writing skills because brainstorming techniques help students become more active and creative, students also do not waste time in the writing process so that students' writing skills improve significantly. This can be evidenced by the increase in student scores in writing descriptive texts through brainstorming techniques by zoom. Thus, it can be said that brainstorming techniques can be used in writing descriptive texts in 8th-grade students of SMP Negeri 264 Cengkareng.COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 until now requires learning and teaching activities to change from face-to-face to online learning. Finding difficulties, advantages, and learning outcomes of writing descriptive text with the brainstorming method using the zoom application is the purpose of this research. The subjects of this study were students of class VIII C 264 State Junior High School. The objective of this study was learning to write descriptive texts using the brainstorming method. Data collection is an observation method and a test method. The collected data were analyzed using qualitative descriptive analysis methods. The results showed that the challenges in writing English descriptive text are limited vocabulary, mastery of grammar, and courage to write. In addition the brainstorming techniques are useful for improving students' writing skills because brainstorming techniques help students become more active and creative, students also do not waste time in the writing process so that students' writing skills improve significantly. This can be evidenced by the increase in student scores in writing descriptive texts through brainstorming techniques by zoom. Thus, it can be said that brainstorming techniques can be used in writing descriptive texts in 8th-grade students of SMP Negeri 264 Cengkareng.

• Teaching Descriptive Text
• Brainstorming & Zoom

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