This research aims to investigate the effect of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) strategy to the students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The research design is the quasi-experimental. This research was held at SMP Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar which was conducted in two classes, namely the experimental class (VII-1) consisting of 31 students and the control class (VII-3) consisting of 31 students with the total 62 of 341 students. The writing test is used as the data collection instrument for the pre-test and post-test. The Brown's writing score rubric is used in this research, including several aspects: content, organization, grammar, vocabulary and mechanics. Then the procedure of data analysis in this study was descriptive analysis statistical hypothesis; by finding out the mean score, the median score, and standard deviation is to find out the t-test then examine by t-table. The result of this research, the researcher found out that the results of statistical hypothesis testing is using t-test showed that at the 5% significance (0.05). The t-test was 3,370 while the t-table was 1.670 or t-test > t-table. As a result, H0 is rejected while Ha is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) strategy significantly affects the students' ability in writing.
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