The Use of Discovery Learning in Building Students’ Motivation in Writing Descriptive Text

Abstract

This article discusses The Use of Discovery Learning in Building Students’ Motivation in Writing Descriptive Text a Case of 8 Grade Students of SMP N 1 JUWANA, the lack of motivation in students, especially in learning to write descriptive text, so teachers must choose the right teaching strategy in the learning process. Research objectives: 1) To elaborate the implementation of discovery learning in building students motivation in writing descriptive text in the classroom,To find out the obstacles of using discovery learning should by the English teacher. The data analysis method used qualitative analysis, namely the data obtained were analyzed and presented in the form of spoken and written words based on the facts that existed during the research. The subjects used were English teachers and 32 students from class VIIIB. The instruments used for data collection are observation and interviews. The results of this study are as follows: in the learning process, the teacher uses discovery learning teaching strategies. There are five stages in the use of the strategy, namely, Stimulation, Problem Statement, Data Collection, Data Processing, Verification, and Generalization. The teacher explains step by step so that students can understand, With the use of suitable teaching strategies, it will make the learning process easier, especially for teachers. especially writing descriptive text.