Teaching Writing a Descriptive Text by Using Zodiac Description

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ABSTRACT

            Teaching English in school is using GBA (Genre Based Approach). GBA is also known as text based teaching. There are twelve kinds of the monolog text can be taught in school by using GBA. One of them is descriptive text. Descriptive text is aim to make the students be able to tell or describe place, person, or thing. There are two aspects that they have to pay attention while describing something, they are appearances and personality. Zodiac description can be used in teaching writing especially in descriptive text. Zodiac description is a media which formed a paragraph that describe about someone traits or characters appropriate with their birth. There are some advantages in teaching writing by using zodiac description. Zodiac description can stimulate students’ comprehension toward new words about someone characters, and make them interested to learn. In addition, there are some stages in this teaching, and it include to the four skill lesson especially in teaching writing. By the reason above, the writer is interested to adapt a media of teaching writing by using zodiac description in school to increase the students’ comprehension about descriptive text.

Key Words : Writing, Summary Technique, Organize idea.